My name is Crystal.

The real me is a Southen girl who finds it easier to express her feelings by writing them down first.

I am a girl who loves her friends as though they were family and who talks to her family as though they were friends.

I am a girl who is unbelievably excited about starting school at West Georgia in the fall of 2008 in order to receive her degree in English.

I am a girl who wants to make a difference in the world through her writing.

I am a girl who is beautiful inside and out -- I am not narcissistic: I just know who I am.

I am a girl whose heart, mind, and soul are always open.

I am a girl who wears her heart on her sleeve.

I am a girl with feelings.

I am a girl with strengths and weaknesses.

I am a girl with a plan.

I am a girl with a future.

I am a girl with hopes, with dreams, and with fears.

I am a girl who does not know where life may lead me, and I'm okay with that.

I am redheaded, blue-eyed, freckled, 5'5", and have a slender to average sized body.

My favorite tv shows are One Tree Hill, Friends, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, and I Love Lucy.

My favorite movies are The Notebook, American Beauty, Speak, The Good Girl, Running With Scissors, and The Breakfast Club.

My favorite musicians are 3 Doors Down, Bowling For Soup, Liz Phair, Michelle Branch, Nickelback, and Taylor Swift.

My favorite authors are Sandra Brown, Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler, and Dr. Seuss.

My favorite book series is Harry Potter.

And that's me... in a nutshell.