Did I mention...

THAT MY DAD'S A NINJA?!?!?! I know. I'm pretty cool. So is he.

I can't sleep

Sleep is spelled so funny ! Maybe that's just my tired kicking in , but really think about it. I'm tired but I can't sleep. I'm afraid i'll have to pull a yesterday morning and take some sleepy time pills , but I really don't want to. I'm trying to save the like 6 that are left for my horrible Insomnia spells. Which come every few months. I haven't had one since before halloween. Maybe it's that time of the year again then. BOO. I hate the Branbury. The moment I have a chance to move I'm taking it. Even if it's not moving home , I want OUT. O-U-T I tell you!! Gregg was lucky to get out when he did. Thanks for listening to my late night ramblings friends. SO... I'm going to get a skype soon. That way I can video chat the family. Especially when my phone is being stupid and broken. Gregg commented the other day that I have THE WORST luck with phone services. I told him I KNOW!! I almost want to just give up on phone companies. Sprint was really the best company i've had. I have verizon now , the company that is supposed to be good , and I got it so I could save Gregg and his family money since they pay his phone bill.( did I mention he's a lucky boy?) I don't want his family to have a bigger phone bill because he got a girlfriend that LOVES to talk to him. I have 3 BEST friends out here. Well 4 if you count Courtney , but we never hang out and we don't really talk that much , but I tell you what. I love that girl. So 4 best friends. Gregg being my numero uno boy bestie , Then TJ. What a cool guy. Then Ginny as my Girl bestie ( we've been besties for 4 years now! go us!) and Courtney. Who I already told you I love. In a best friend way. I don't know why I always clear that up. Next weekend I'm visiting Ginny after her surgery. I'm taking her books and we're gonna play legos. I need a vacation. If I don't get near a large body of water I just might go crazy. Did I mention that my 2nd job and if i get job number 3 are my lazy girl jobs? Seriousy I work from home. All I do is pick up checks for one and then drop them off and stuff. MAKE BANK. Because I do no sales , yet I get part of the commission. and the other one they're still in the process of giving me the info of what i'd do exactly but that would be working from home too. ROCK ON. but job number 2 they told me i'd make roughly 500 in commission a week. plus base pay , which did i mention is 1200 a month? Which I guess kinda makes sense because that would be like me getting 2 600 dollar paychecks. Anyways i'm totally excited can you tell? I'm getting hungry so i'm going to grab my "breakfast " and pretend that I actually like living on 1500 calories a day.

Last to know

In my family , I think I have been unknowingly designated as the "last one to know ANYTHING" person. I think my family had a vote on it one night while I was gone and said to themselves " Well Afton's gone so we'll just vote her into that position." I wish I had a vote though. Mostly because I HATE being the last one to know. Legit , want some examples. Okayyy. Remember the time my dog died and I didn't find out till a month later? Or maybe the time dad was in the hospital and I didn't know about it till 2 weeks later? Or the time Aunt got preggo and I didn't find out until 5 months till due date? or how about the time more recently I didn't know Sarah was engaged until a few weeks before the wedding? Or how about the Most recent? Me not finding out about my Sisters terrible car wreck until a week later ? Step it up family. Step. IT. UPPPP!!!! Anywaysss....aside from the obvious aggravation of NOBODY telling me anything.I'm okay. I've been happy and i've been losing weight. Ask boyfriend. He commented on it. It's because i'm following a diet that makes me cry. In fact I completely related to the simpsons episode we watched tonight where Homer went on a hunger strike and cried , then said " i'm sooo hungry" I looked at Gregg and said " I can relate. In fact I said that yesterday." Life is so hard. Anyways ,since my new job pays bank Gregg and I have decided that I will save money ( while paying of bills, sweet) for us to go on a magical beach vacation. Yeah oh , did I mention I might be getting a job numero THREE??? No? Well... it's true. That's how the life of Afton is going. yay.

last one till 1am. Promise.

There is NO way you can tell me boyfriend does't look amazingly handsome and gorgeous in my you're studying- but i'm bored photo. I am so lucky. I will not EVEN post the picture where he looks kinda not smart and sexy.

This dog..

Man , I miss this dog TERRIBLY... He was probably one of my bestest friends. Sometimes when I was at home alone with him we would sit in the kitchen and have late night talks. Sometimes when I was sad he understood and would look up at me with those huge brown puppy dog eyes and lick my hand . It was almost as if he was saying "I hear ya. Don't worry about what's going on , I still love you. No matter what." I hope puppies go to heaven , because honestly , I don't think I could survive eternity without this dog.

Diet Day Dos.

You know what? The title of this blog just made me this much <----------> happier simply because all the words start with "D" . Does that let you know how my day went ? That something thatsimple could make me happy? No? Then let me explain myself. I woke up.at 2-ish. I woke up at 8 first then my brain was like " No thanks Afton , just go back to bed. kay bye. " So I obeyed. Anyways. Then I had my good morning shake. bleh. Then I finished the bachelor. GOOD. I'm sooo upset that what's her face is still on though. You know who i'm talking about. The annoying, crazy , girl from SLC. I really just want to punch her in the face. The fact that Brad actually likes her annoying-ness makes me want to punch him in the face.
Continuing on. Then right as I was about to watch parenthood , Gregg comes over. I get my stuff together ... WAIT!! REWIND!! Prior to the parenthood watching I go to take a bath because I really wanted to. So I turn on the water to the hottest so I can get it warm , go get my clothes and do something else. By the time I got back the tub was full. Of hot water. So I say to myself , eh , i'll deal and jump in. BAD IDEA. I burned my bum. ( I later relayed the story to Gregg who as soon as I started said YOU SCALDED YOUR BUTT!! This my friends is why I love him #1234567 ) Okay back to my story. I gather my stuff up and we leave. We go to UVU so we can get school stuff done. On the way out we grab Jamba. Gregg is being so helpful at this point by helping me find the smoothie I can have with the LOWEST calories. He's an angel I tell you. We go over to his house when I realize hey , I have therapy in half an hour. BOO.My therapist says I don't need it , but I have to go anyway because who knows why.
So after therapy Gregg picks me up so we can go to his house. We get there and I just lay down and cry . I cry and cry and cry. Gregg, my loving angel looks at me and says " Do you want your shake?" I nod my head no , but he picks it up anyways and brings it to me. Then he just cuddles me and lets me cry on his shoulder. I'm crying because i'm SO HUNGRY , I'm crying because I don't want to go to therapy anymore. I'm crying because he does not know if he wants to be with me or not, I'm crying because I feel like crying is ALL I can do. After i'm done crying he hands me my shake and says Afton , I will make you a KP. ( for those of you who don't know what a KP is it's a sandwich Gregg and TJ invented and it's delicious. ) So I open up my shake that was very undesirable at the moment , but I knew I should put SOMETHING in my stomach for how mean i'm being to it by cutting calories and such , and we just talk.
I should also let you know that I got Gregg to shave. Begging him and telling him that " Your beard hurts me when we kiss" was not working. Finally Gregg was like i'll shave my face if you will. I'm like okay. He's all but what will you shave your face with? I'm like shaving cream ? He giggles and goes " OKAY I'LL SHAVE!! " True to my end of the deal I walk upstairs with him and with TJ and a photo as my witness I shaved with Gregg. Mind you I used shaving cream and a Q-tip , but whatever.I'm just glad I got the boy to shave. Then I was craving Chocolate. After convincing Gregg that I still had 240 calories I could eat we went and got me some candy. Guess what world. I followed my diet today. EXACTLY. Then we talked to Tim for a little bit about catholics and Greek Orthodox and NYC and how much we LOVE the pizza there. Then Gregg and I talked about lots of other things. Like how tomorrow we are going to watch the simpsons ALL DAY LONG. Anyways. Yeah I'm reading 3 books right now. IT is HARD. I'm really only liking the one by stephen king. I also got a book called the Mitfords. It's about 6 sisters who wrote letters to each other ( BRETT , COLBY , WE MUST do this.) they were SUPER crazy though. Like one committed suicide , one was a nazi , one was in prison , one kept her appendix and sold ( yes I said SOLD) the stitches. CRAZY!!! Anyways i'll attach my "beard" picture.

Day 1.

Some of you may or may not have heard that I am starting a diet. I finally got tired of looking and feeling fat , and being so out of breath every time I climbed the stairs for church. I decided to change that. I also got a little tired of my parents telling me "oh this or that will change if you just lose weight." As if I didn't already think of that. Anyways. I'm not playing the blame game. So as a new years resolution I decided that I wanted to lose at LEAST 15 pounds this year. While I was online Monday night looking at what the ideal weight for me would be , I found the slimfast diet. It's there 3-2-1 diet that let's you have 3 100 calorie snacks, 2 of either their shakes or meal bars , and 1 500 calorie dinner. You also drink 8-8oz glasses of water a day and exercise for at least half an hour. I figured i could do that easier than anything else mostly because I have no problem cutting back on eating and it's exercising that's my downfall. I must say I did pretty well today. I had my shake for breakfast , my 1/2 cup of corn for snack, shake for lunch, 1/2 cup corn for snack... that's when my trouble began... i was CRAVING a burger. So my loving and supportive boyfriend helped me look at ALL the nutritional facts for our burger joints. Guess what? I can have tons of the burgers at McDonalds. Just not the big mac or the most popular ones. So we drove to a Mickey D's and picked us up some 410 calorie Double Cheeseburgers. I promise you no hamburger has tasted better in the entire world. What a nice boy. I've also inspired him to eat healthier. Sort of. We bought Jello for our snacks ( well my snacks , I don't know if that was his reasoning. Well I do. Kind of) because the sugar free packets ( which are good) are 40 calories for a BOX. He also just got ONE double cheeseburger although he told me that 3 is his perfect number. ( did i mention that our 2 only cost like 3 bucks, which means that I can get one for about a dollar.)That's when bad things happened. I ate my last helping of corn and I was super hungry. Gregg commented that I still had roughly 60 calories left over that I could eat. SOOO... Tim , his roommate brought home extra arbys. I ate that. Then immediately regretted it ( That's a good sign right?) but before then as we were cleaning his room , I ate the rest of my taco salad from the day before. I also kept finding candy in his room and ate that too. I FELT HORRIBLE. I told him next time he needs to stop me. Guess that means i'm going to be working out EXTRA tomorrow. Boo. I'm really proud of myself though because i didn't eat NEARLY as much today as I usually do. Plus i'm downing a LOT of water. Which I don't usually do. So even though I didn't follow my diet to a "T" today , I feel really proud of myself. I think as long as i'm making the effort i'll improve. Anyways , I'll give you guys the updates as they come. Did I mention that my pushing Gregg to clean his room helped him find his wallet? I don't believe so. Let's just say I had Gregg very grateful to have me around. I'm such a good girlfriend. Plus we decided to try our hardest to not make such big deals out of everything. Which yeah is going to require more work on my part than his , but a little effort from him too. So here's to us improving our lives!!

Somebody PLEEEASE show me how.

Okay . You my friends are in charge of teaching me how to link blog things. like you know when people are like check out this blog post and it's all blue because they linked it to someone elses blog? Teach me that. I'll be forever grateful. Todayyyy: Gregg and I fell in love. All over again. You know why? Because things have been simply perfect lately. Legit. I don't remember it ever being this good. Well maybe the first week we dated. (best week of my life) This week is A close second to that week. We've been happy , and nice and just so love-y. It's put me in SUCH high spirits. I've never felt this good about life in general. We're signing up for institute tomorrow. I PROMISE. I'm not stressed. About anything. Okay maybe a little stressed. Not nearly as much as I was though.I need to finish the Bachelor. and Start Financial aid papers. bleh. I should probably look into filing for residency too. That way I can pay less . Oh I feel dumb so i'll ask Gregg my dumb question later. He'll just laugh at me and be like " really Afton?" (ps. i just spelled my name wrong. i'm super dumb) and then he'll tell me the answer. Then make fun of me for a few days. To make all ya'll smile today here's a little clip of my average dumb question :
Me: Do girls have sternums or is that just boys?
Gregg: *LAUGHING* Afton you are so dumb.
Me: Are you going to answer me? I really can't remember !
Gregg: Yes Afton, girls have sternums too. I'm going to make that in a quote on Facebook. You are super cute. I love you.
Mind you he's laughing at me during all this. He still laughs at me actually...

We're gonna try this one more timeee... One of Us

Today :

Today I : Finished my Cini-Mini Cereal
Discovered my love for the Rocky Horror Glee Show Album.
Bought more Cini-Mini Cereal
Ate KFC with Greggor
Beat Greggors butt at Simcity 4.
I also wore my 6 dollar VS shirt. I love it. Best part is it's super modest , and super comfy. Gregg loves it. haha. I think i'm converting him to VS. It's okay though ,because he's VERY proud of himself ( and me for that matter) for converting me to KFC. I used to be a KFC hater. Gregg has shown me the errors of my ways. I also got to hang out with TJ. Who is one REALLY cool guy. I should start reading my library books , but I got a stephen King book , and I REALLY don't feel like scaring the business out of myself in the middle of the night. Day time is acceptable. OH! I need to finish my Fin. Aid papers.For Summer Semester. I've already been accepted in. So. That's exciting. Also i'm looking forward to March 26th. Festival of Colors is on the Calander. Do you think I can talk Gregg into a GA beach trip this spring? I'm gonna try my super hardest. OH YA'LL HAVE TO CHECK OUT GLEE'S ONE OF US SONG! it's from the cheezus episode , and it's on the 4th album. It's my favorite right now. I jam to it. i wonder if i can post a link. There , I think that added it. Anyways. I'll close it on that note. Stay Classy

You'll be happy to hear...

You will be happy to hear that i'm happy. You'll also be happy to hear i'm perfectly terrified out of my mind. I was... you know , i can't remember what I was doing. Anyways , point of the story is I decided i'm terrified to have kids. Scared enough that i almost don't ever want to have any. (I still do, don't flip out) I'm afraid i'll be a horrible mother. Which Gregg says that's a good fear because it probably means I will be a good mommy , because i'll try that much harder ,because i'm worried about it. I love that man. I'm also terrified to get married one day. Funny how that changes huh? I know I still want to get married , but i'm scared out of my mind about it. I just want it to be me and Gregg forever. Just like it is now. well not JUST like it is now ,but basically the same. I want us to be this in love forever. I want us to always be excited to see each other. anyways. another thing you'll be happy to hear...The snow is starting to melt. Which makes for a very restless Afton , and a very happy Gregg and Afton. Like I said though. It makes me restless for sunshine. I NEED a beach. I'm trying to talk Gregg into making a beach trip with me this spring/summer. Maybe that's going to require a quick visit to GA?? we shall see. I feel a Tybee Island visit in the making. I'd rather hit up Cali , but Gregg does not like that idea so much. I'm a yearnin for a sunburnin though. No joke. Today I started weaning myself onto my Jello diet. I'm stoked to drop weight fast the unhealthy way.lol. Seriously though. STOKED. As soon as it's warm enough for me to want to walk to the club house , i'm going to start tanning. HAHAH Brett , Mom , you can go ahead and laugh. I know you wanna. But really i am. you will be so jealous of me. Maybe not Brett though. Anyways. I'm going to bed. LOVE YA'LL! Stay classy America...( okay maybe not america. Maybe just ya'll who read my boring life)