Hello. My name is Kristen … I would tell you my last name but, you may be a stalker so I'll just say it's Neilson. It's a Scandinavian name too so good enough. I live in Texas, and I've always lived in Texas. Ancestors are from Sweden and Norway. I've traveled a bit, but not for long periods of time. I guess you could say the farthest away from home was when my family went to Europe for two weeks a few years ago, visiting Austria, Italy, France, and new cousins in Germany (my uncle's a Duke. Faber-Castell if you'd believe it.) That's beside the point though. I daydream… a lot. I know it's a bad habit but I've always been that way. I'm a head in the clouds type person.
I am eighteen years old and just finished my first semester at College, though I'm still living at home. I've been home schooled my whole life, and I like it. Not exactly a typical person; I'm shy when meeting people with outgoing friends, but outgoing when I'm on my own in a new situation. I'm tidy (typically), and surprisingly I'm a girl who plays games like Halo, World of Warcraft, The Sims, and Age of Empires. I absolutely love to read, draw, and write. I've written a few longer stories that haven't been completed, and a short story for a competition.
I'm about five foot eight, though I keep forgetting. Probably that, or 5'10" but let's just say I'm tall. My hair is ash blond, after the highlights have worn out. It used to be black when I was born, brown when I was little, then bright blonde at age 10, and it's toning back down again to a dirty blond. I must say, I prefer a clean blond but I can't choose the natural color. I recently went for a new look and had my hair cut so I have "bangs" slanted at an angle to the right, and the ragged layers from there to about halfway down my back. My hair can easily switch between curly and straight. It's naturally curly see, so all I have to do is spray in a bit of curl spray, keep it up for a few hours, and it's curly! Then if Iwant it straight I blow it dry and use the straightener. It's much easier to curl my hair because it takes much less time but it's nice being able to choose. Lately I've been straightening my hair.
I'm slim, or fit. Not extremely muscular mind you, but I am generally in shape and not overweight; hourglass figure is the term I believe. I wear makeup because my face has a bad habit of still breaking out sometimes, and when I'm pale (like during winter, when it's too cold to sun tan) my skin tones can be uneven in places. "Meh" (my word for disappointment but nothing I can do about it).
As for extra-curricular activities, I've taken three years of Tae Kwon Do and made it to my blue belt before I couldn't stand it anymore. Let's just say I'd have to take classes three or so more years until I could get my first black belt (and get weapons training, which is what I'd always wanted to do). I'd had a few horse riding lessons for my birthday, and I'd taken two years of ballet, jazz, and hip-hop. It was fun, but I'd started too late to make anything of it so I quit when I graduated, but I still have my point and jazz shoes, which I absolutely love. Through my church youth group I'd been involved in ensembles and choir, which was fun, but I have a weak voice in my opinion. People tell me I have a nice voice but you can never tell when they're being honest. I think my voice is weak because I think I can't sing, but when I'm alone or listening to someone else sing, my voice is strong and I'm confident. So definitely a self-confidence thing, which I have issues with.
But now that you know almost everything about me, let's get on with this shall we?
Finals were finally over and I was going to stay at my Grandparents for a few days before Christmas. I was really looking forward to it seeing as they're both cool for grandparents and are interested in most of the same high culture stuff I am (such as the Symphony, Classical music, Art, and other cultures). They're well off, and since they'd both had a lot of money before they got married a few years ago, they're well set for life. I'd packed a few changes of clothes in my messenger bag; I had my sketchbook, pencils, hair items, body items, (a few girl items), iPod and charger, a portable solar plug (it's so cool! The future is here!), and my Bible safely tucked in as well. I was wearing a white camisole under a pastel green and white horizontally striped ¾ shirt from American Eagle, long blue jeans from the Gap, and a warm red knit hat like the kind worn in the 20's, or if you are uncultured (I'm not being serious), the kind worn by Kirstin Dunst in Elizabethtown. I hope I don't have to mention I was wearing shoes. Moccasins to be exact, but I had to be careful on slippery stuff; they didn't have much of a grip.
I parked my car out front of their house, threw my bag over my shoulder and rang their doorbell. After waiting about ten minutes outside the door, ringing it a few more times and knocking, I decided they must have been out somewhere and weren't back yet. They didn't ever forget if someone was coming to stay, so I chose to walk around their neighborhood since I hadn't seen much of it. My grandparents had moved there recently after leaving Anne's loft in Dallas for this lovely town house closer to my family. So off I went on my determined ten-minute adventure around the block in the cool December weather. Mind you, this is Texas: the land of the schizophrenic weather. It was currently in the mid 50's.
