Welcome

Well i promised myself that one day i would write a blog to put my thoughts out there about everything, and today i finally have.

So i guess i should start out by saying who i am and why the hell would you want to read my blog in the first place?

Well I'm Karissa I'm 21 and i live in Adelaide Australia. I spend most of my time trying to survive university and hoping that eventually ill finish. And guess what? i nearly have, i am officially in my final year of a BA Archaeology degree. I'm pretty proud of myself to, from what i know i am the first person in my family to go to Uni so i guess this is a big deal.

When I'm not going insane from essays and reports that i have to write i spend most of my time looking for jobs and collecting autographs (its my main hobby). I guess when you have spent the best part of 9 years collecting autographs it becomes more of an obsession rather than a hobby. I do collect mainly sport related autographs but i have started to expand my collection into music and actors in the last few years.

I got asked recently what is your most prized autograph? it would have to be the toughest question because i have collected every single one for a reason. But i guess the one that holds the most meaning to me is my Tasmanian Cricket Team sheet from 2003/2004. There is one guys autograph on there by the name of Scott Mason. Now most of you wont have heard of him but during the 2002 season he was a very important part of the Tigers side. I met Scott at Bellrieve Oval just before just before Easter in 2005, Scott was the last tiger i needed to complete my sheet and we had this very long chat about everything from how my schooling was going to the best way to hit a pull shot.

Only weeks after i met Scott i heard on the news that he had suffered a Heart attack in the nets while practicing. 2 days later he was declared dead and i was in total shock. He had been so nice to me and he seemed like a really sweet guy. He was only 28 years old and now every time i look at that sheet i can see his face smiling at me, so i guess its one of my most important autographs for that reason.
The autograph i get the most people jealous over would have to be Robert Pattinson. Most of the worlds female population will know who he is. I have had so many people email me and leave me messages on my website asking how i got it. And all i tell them is write to his agency and you might get something back! its that simple.

I guess finally ill say that my future blogs will be about how i have gotton certain autographs or simply if i need to vent i will lol. I am planning though to write a review of future fan packs that i hope to receive from football clubs and teams from Australia and around the world.
If you don't know what a fan pack is, well its simply a pack of free stuff that the club or team is willing to send you. An example of this are match day programmes, team posters, stickers and it some packs maybe a hat or autographed cards.

But that's for a future blog.

Bye all. I have research to do for University (bah!)