I've started a blog that I think I will be updating from now on.  Feel free to go there!  http://supergroverkristow.blogspot.com/

I'll still keep my account here at LiveJournal, in case I ever decide to come back to it.

Kim

I had a pretty good weekend.  Got to lay around, got about $160 worth of groceries, went out to a bar in Pittsville of all places, had breakfast at Perkins with my family this morning, and got to play a decent amount of Lego Indiana Jones 2 ( Read more... )

I'm going to try and be better about updating this thing this year ( Read more... )

Cheers to a new year!

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Wow, I honestly keep forgetting I have this.  When I do remember I say to myself "why not write a few lines" and then something distracts me.  So here is a few lines ( Read more... )

So I'm on another 11 day stretch of work.  I'm trying not to complain too much because it means money.  It's just that by the end of it I'm completely dead and end up wasting my days off doing nothing.  Then suddenly it's already time to go back to work.  Vicious cycle I tell ya ( Read more... )

Well, summer is drawing to a close.  I usually get depressed during the month of September because of the thought of colder weather and snow on its way. *shudder*

I'll have been a Ristow for one whole year this coming Sunday.

I got a new car, a 2007 Mercury Milan with 32, 000 miles on it.  Ended up settling for $10,500 when the list price was $17,000 ( Read more... )

I'm a celebrity today. I played violin in the Rapids garden walk on Saturday and a lady from the local paper took my picture:
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Well, officially moved into the new place.  Got internet on Wednesday which was the final thing left to do.  It is so unbelievably nice to have my stuff back.  So far my mother-in-law has only made one surprise visit, I'm anticipating more to come.  She was here 20 minutes, which was 20 minutes too long.  All three of us were here and basically ( Read more... )

It's strange to see how empty my room at my parents' house is compared to how full my apartment is getting.  I'm always amazed by how much I own.  I think I will be spending a lot of my time going through everything and starting a "garage sale" box.  I hate it when I have things that are just sitting in a closet somewhere that aren't being used.  I ( Read more... )