Hello, My Name is Kristy

I'll be twenty-seven on April 23, 2008. This puts me on the downward slope to thirty and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. Part of me still hasn't come to terms with the fact that I'm not the same girl I was in college or high school and that part insists that I keep portraying myself as that girl, instead of the grownup woman I know has taken her place.

And I keep wondering when that happened because I don't feel like a grownup, despite my attempts of acting like one. I guess that's part of getting older but I often wonder if how I feel is ever going to catch up with my actual age.

My parents divorced when I was young and my mother subsequently married a Navy man and we began living the gypsy life, moving from state to state (and for me, school to school) until we finally settled in a suburb of Philadelphia right as I began high school. As a result of this and traveling to see my father three to four times a year, most of my early memories are of highways and pavement. But since I spent what I consider to be my formative years - high school and college - in Philadelphia, it will always be the closest thing to home for me.

I currently reside in Charleston, South Carolina with my boyfriend, Steve, also frequently referred to as the Baron von Awesome, and our pets: Sammy, or Sir Sampson, the five-year old terrier we rescued from the SPCA and the bearded dragon who has never officially been named, thought I've recently taken to calling him King Louis the Lizard.

Steve and I have been together for almost a decade and we are not married or babied by choice. We don't plan on doing either for quite some time, if ever, and we are ok with that. We enjoy our freedom and our ability to only be responsible to each other and not for other human beings. The dog is enough pressure as it is.

In 2006, Steve and I both realized that the Philadelphia economy and cost of living were never going to allow us to be as successful as we wanted to be. Needing a fresh start, we packed everything we owned into a small Budget truck and moved here to the Dirty South. We were taking on two adventures: starting new lives in a new city and moving in together (we had lived apart up until we moved). So far, both have been pretty successful since we just recently bought our first house together. That now consumes a lot of our life.

I have a degree from Temple University in Advertising and Marketing that I don't really use the way I should. I place a great value on both higher education and experience and I believe you can't be as successful as you want to be without both. However, I'm proud of both and believe each has given me skills and knowledge that I need to make myself happy and comfortable with life. And one of my biggest pet peeves is stand people who discredit that because they don't have one or the other.

That being said - for money, I work as an Information Systems Technician for a small bank. Working as a technical person in a non-technical industry means I get to touch and learn a lot more things than if I specialized in one specific area. Sometimes that's good and sometimes it's not. Most days I enjoy what I do - other days, I want to pull my eyelashes out one by one because I think it would be less painful than spending another minute at work. Overall, it pays the bills with enough leftover to play and it's tolerable enough for me to stick around.

By night, I'm a pretty low-key person. I've moved past the partying days of college and would much rather sit down with a glass of wine, some good food and something entertaining that I don't really need to concentrate on longer than half an hour or so. This means I spend a lot of time surfing the Internet, watching too much crappy reality TV or playing video games where I can shoot people and blow shit up. I'm addicted to pop culture and books with pastel spines (well, any book, to be honest, but I'm partial to the chick lit because I can blow through them in less than a day) and I subscribe to magazines that I never get around to reading. The Baron and I share a love for movies so we spend a lot of time at the theatre or renting them from Blockbuster. On weekends, when there's more time, I enjoy traveling, road trips and exploring the area. I am always up for checking out new places. Lately, we've spent a lot of time working on the house and keeping it up, which is usually brought on by my OCD tendencies of keeping it clean or marathons on HGTV or TLC where I get inspiration to refinish furniture or paint things that I really should just leave alone.

I am a pure believer in retail therapy and instant gratification. I want something I usually go out and get it out immediately and it makes me feel much better. My wallet, on the other hand, hates me.

I'm not graceful or gentle and I injure myself on a daily basis. I'm outspoken and ask stupid questions because I don't think before I speak. I'm all talk though and it's a weakness I'm working on. I good at being a perfectionist and a procrastinator and that combination means I live my life feeling guilty all the time. I can't function without to-do lists and just making one makes me feel accomplished - I don't even have to start crossing things off. I like to slam doors to make a point, regardless of how effective it is. I'm quite stubborn and independent and will usually attempt to do things myself instead of waiting on someone else to do them for me. I like being in control but am otherwise an eternal optimist and pretty down to earth.

Finally, I love photography and am just starting to explore it more seriously. Expression and art in any form intrigues me so I spend a lot of my life looking at things from many different angles. If I could go through the day with the camera strapped to my forehead, I'd be a happy person.

Like most people, there's more to me than can be summed up in a few paragraphs and most of it is contradictory and inexplicable. If it made sense, I would be nearly as interesting or fun to be around.

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