I may not remember important things like when I ate my last piece of cheesecake or where I was the day Martha Stewart went to prison, but I clearly remember my first day of kindergarten. Grandma Claudine took my picture in my new outfits everyday before I left for school. On the first day, I wore a blue dress with white circles and in each circle was a red flower and one green leaf. The dress had a white collar with a lace trim. I wore white tights and black patent leather shoes and carried a black patent leather purse that had a long gold chain. That dress met its fate in a painting accident later that day.
I thought each flower deserved more than one leaf, so while we were learning how to paint, I added green leaves to nearly every flower on the front of my dress. What?! The teacher said the paint would come out and I thought it would be nice to 'fix' my dress. Apparently, the paint didn't just wash right out and my mother gave that pretty dress to my teacher as a gift to commemorate my new found artistic abilities.
The other significant event I remember about the first day of school was the homework. Yeah, I know...right! The assignment wasn't actually meant to be a homwork assignment, it was supposed to be an in-class writing assignment. I just couldn't get it finished in time because everytime I made a mistake, I ripped up my paper and started all over again. Who knew this would be a foreshadowing of two significant aspects of my adult life: my innate ability to turn a simple task into a complicated one and my obsessive cumpulsion over seeemingly trivial matters. I think the most important thing I lerned in school that day was that even kindergarteners need erasers, whether for clothing or paper.
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