Fall, Fall, Falling in love?

Oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fall! All the beautiful colors, and leaves everywhere, just makes ya wanna bundle up, go for a walk and fall in love! Or if you me, creepily stalk people, ha just kidding... kinda.

So this week I am determined to go on a date with this guy... we shall call him attractive man. I have met him and talked to him, so I'm not a complete creep, but if you know me you know that I am creepy non the less. So any way, attractive man is well, really attractive, and an amazing singer! He posted a video of him singing a song, and said song will not get out of my head. Not that I mind watching him sing it, I just think my roommates are rolling their eyes every time they hear it playing.

I first met attractive man at a group social, he looked at me, kind of gave me a funny look and then looked away. A minute or so later he turned back around, smiled one of the most gorgeous smiles that I have ever seen in my entire life and introduced himself. If you know me you know that I have this condition called I get embarrassed very easily. So because of the lack of pigmentation in my skin I light up like a lobster just pulled from the pot. I say hi, and pray that my face will not ignite the whole room. So it is completely obvious that I think attractive man is attractive, hopefully I just don't blow it before I even get the chance to know him.

Unfortunately attractive man lives an hour away from me...:/ Maybe I can go home tomorrow night and come up with some sneaky plan for him to get to know me, or to get him to ask me on a date. Well I was reading a pin on pintrest that said men like women to take the initiative, so what do you think? Should I just ask him out on a date, or should I trick him into asking me on a date? Either way I'm determined to go on a date with him.

Everyone in their life time needs to go on a date with an extremely attractive person, said person may not have a personality that you love, or is a complete doofus, but non the less, everyone should at least go on one date with an extremely attractive person. I believe that everyone should strive for the total package and never, NEVER settle. There is someone out there that will completely love me for who I am, and I will love him back completely for who he is.

P.S. True Badger night is approaching quickly, if you don't have a badge picked to lock lips with ya, maybe you should do some searching this weekend! Good luck!

Love,
Afton Michelle

I introduce... the awkward photos!!

Life is not easy when you are awkward!

This is my very first date, as you can imagine from the look on my face,
It was Super Awkward. 

This is what we call the awkward balloon! It occurs when one
goes to give another a fist bump, and the another does not
give a fist bump in return. The originator of the first fist bump
then must retaliate to other options to make sure they do not
look awkward, or as thought they just missed out on a fist bump.
Unfortunately when one does not think this situation all the way
through they may end up in another awkward situation, like starring
at an invisible balloon. 

I made this one extra large so that you can see the awkwardness. Once you see it,
you will understand! (hint: look to the upper left hand corner!)

First kiss? ha ha nope, its strange and awkward so that is
why it is here! Me and a friend have a ritual of sorts of kissing
a lucky brick at Disney land. I guess its supposed to help us
find a husband that will be a good kisser? who knows! 

Yup I'm standing right in the middle of a bunch of guys, one is
even trying to kiss me and what do I do? Make a face of horror
and awkwardness! 

Catchup

So I was not super social during spring semester due to that crazy thing I call life which includes... school, debate, traveling to Italy, cadence, and work. Since I have been home however I have had a few experiences ;).
1st a cute guy by a wrong name= unable to find on Facebook.
So I met this cute guy in my institute class. I attended preparation for an eternal marriage, the first day I saw him we were practicing asking other people questions, so we were basically speed dating. That class is jam packed with girls and only a few boys so that and my bad luck meant that I was going to be playing the role of a boy for a night and that unfortunately meant I wouldn't be meeting the cute guy. We were on our second to last person to question and the cute guy came from across the room to sit in the seat next to me. He was asking the other girl questions, but right when the instructors told us to switch he looked at me and said that he wanted to talk to me!!! BOY OH BOY, could you imagine my excitement! Unfortunately he makes me so nervous that I couldn't carry on a decent conversation.
Then I tried to look him up on Facebook and failed many times to find him. Then one day... TODAY I was looking and found him! The biggest problem in my search was I was looking up a completely wrong name! Well now we are officially Facebook friends, and hopefully soon to be real friends!
2nd Parker
I recently competed in the Miss Salem Scholarship pageant. I received Spirit of the pageant award ( or Miss Congeniality). My awesome friends came to support me, unfortunately one was not able to attend so my friends had and extra ticket. My good buddy Kyle invited one of his old mission companions. After Miss Salem his companion asked for my number and he gave it to him. He started texting me and told me that he was Kyle's companion, I said oh sweet, we should hang out sometime. By we I met that me, him, Kyle, some of my other friends, he thought we= me and him. So he asked to hang out the following Monday, which we did. We went to a park and went on a small hike, then on Wednesday he asked to hang out again. So I met him in Provo and we went to a park. Then he asked me on a date for Saturday, but I had to re schedule for Friday. Guess what we did... we went to a park, then went to go see a movie but ended up at a park. I had to let him know that I'm not really interested, which was incredibly awkward for me.
Well wish me luck with guy number one!
Love,
Afton Michelle

tutoring the badger?

So I administered the test, but not without problems. First the door was locked to the room in which I was supposed to administer the test within, and I had printed off the test and placed it in the room. So there I was sitting on the floor waiting for the mystery man to show up. Once he arrives we chit chat and discover that he is in fact the mystery man. So after trying to contemplate what to do I come to the conclusion that I could pull it up on my phone and he could take it from my phone. So we went to a different room and while we were walking he asked me, "so you work in the speech lab?"
"yeah, sort of"
then get this he said, "So do you do private tutor sessions as well?"
"uhhhh...... sure"
So I think he may be interested, but me and him never cross paths, so I don't think that I will see him again or that we have a chance of actually going on a date.

Part 2
So many of you may know that last night was true badger night. The full moon was shining, the bell tower was solid in the same place, and the lips were puckering.
I went to party with my fellow debate friends and ate a billion crepes. Then We decided we wanted to party even more and go to the dance to dance the crepes of... naturally. So I'm keeping my eyes open in case there is a boy who catches my eye, and there is one. Only problem is that he is kinda apart of my friend group. So in the long run I didn't become a true badger, but if that boy would have asked I probably would have thought twice about becoming a true badger. However one of my roommates has an interest in him, so its tricky if I should make a move on him or not, and I'm even confused as to what kind of move I would be making. Well we will see what happens! wish me luck!
Love,
Afton Michelle

Creepers be Creepin!

So my "roommate", she doesn't really live with us but I consider her a roommate, any way. My roommate has a public speaking class this semester and she noticed a cute boy. She came home one day and told me about this boy, and said that me and him would be very cute together. So what do we do?? Of course we whip out the computer, log onto facebook, and look him up. What did I think? He is cute but I think I am more receptive to actually talking and getting to know someone. She said he didn't look the same in real life, so then I have to see him in real life, but the only place I know where and when he will be  is in my roommates public speaking class. Luckily for me I work in the communications department, her teacher is my forensics coach, and I'm currently working on a big project. Last Wednesday I nonchalantly stopped by her class to catch a peek and "talk to Malynda about work" that was the cover at least. No one who didn't know would have known. I thought he was cute, but still we didn't talk and I had never seen him before. I had almost given up my search of him when almost all of my roommates saw him at one of our friends inter mural basketball games. I went to a few games but never saw him. So this week I had just come to the conclusion that I would probably never see him, I decided that I could never come up with a scheme that would glide smooth enough. I gave up on my search. Then today I went to work and My coach said that she needs me to administer a test to one of her students tomorrow. She then told me his name, and it was my guy! Its fate!! I'm supposed to meet this boy, and we are supposed to be cute together!! Well I'm a bit nervous to actually meet the guy who's name I know, I know where he went on his mission, and yet he does not even know I exist! Well wish me luck!
love,
Afton Michelle 

On to the next one!

So it's been a while... let's not talk about it.
Any way, I'm not too interested in anyone right now, there is another boy in my public speaking class, but I'm pretty sure that he is a pre-mi. Ya know like pre-missionary, yeah so I don't think that he is too interested in dating right now, unfortunately. So my friend Taylor said she would hook me up with some cute guys, but that has not happened yet. Guess I should get out there and try to touch some elbows, but I'm not sure that the guys can feel my light touch, its freezing cold down here in Ephriam, so all the layers may prohibit much elbow sensation.
well, I'm off to do college things like twittle my thumbs, stare at the ceiling, roam around aimlessly, and most importantly stare into the abyss.
Love,
Afton Michelle

There is something in the water!

So lots and lots and lots has happened since the last post, I have kinda been busy! So First manner of business, I went to the opera, it was fantastic. First we went to this authentic Italian pizza place, there we met his sister Rachael and his mom. They were both really nice and kind, then his french professor showed up with another lady, who I'm not aware of who she was. So any way, we ate, it was good, then we had gelato, which was very good. After we took Daniels car to a hotels parking lot and hoped in his sisters vehicle. His sister and mom dropped us off at Capitol Theater, we went in, and they were just beginning to shut the doors so they told us to quickly find a seat in the back. We found a seat and sat down, we got and nestled in and Daniel held out his hand to me, ya know just like asking me to hold it, so what did I do you may be asking? I held it! I sure am glad that they keep those places dark because I'm sure my face was a red as a tomato in the middle of July under the scorching hot sun. So then I'm sure my face is glowing like Rudolf nose, but I'm content. Then his sister and mom come in and sit at the other end of the row we were on, they didn't even know that we were there, so Daniel called them over and we sat next to each other. During intermission we decided to go sit up on the balcony, which was really cool. The opera was in German (as previously mentioned) and I was grateful for live subtitles! they were pretty cool. After the opera we went back to Daniels car and were driving home when my mind began to wonder... it had taken this Daniel fella a good two weeks before he decided that my hand was worth holding, but maybe the hand holding was just a warm up for the night. So then the wheels in my mind began to turn, and I was thinking, what if he will kiss me tonight??? So I came up with the perfect first kiss plan. I asked him if he wanted to see where I grew up, because it was on the way back home. He said sure so I guided him to Salem pond. We walked around it on the path hand in hand, arm in arm, it really was quite charming. Then we walked up on the bridge and once we were in the middle I hugged him, looked up at him, did the eyes, mouth, eyes look, waited and ... nothing! nothing! So I decided to give it another shot. Eyes, mouth, eyes, mouth, eyes waiting and again nothing, so I abandoned my plan as he clearly was not on board, and we headed back to the car, got in drove around my neighborhood and went home. I really did have a great time and was glad that he asked me to go.
So since then I took him to a family dinner, and I know that it can be perceived as being serious with a person but I really appreciate my families opinions and want to know asap if this guy is worth keeping around, or if I should just move on before heart break shrivels me to shreds. My brother in law thought that he was too prepared and that I must have given him information, which of course I did. Come on if you love your family you can't help but tells stories about how much you love them, and how awesome they are. But any way...
One day we were at his aunts house and we were upstairs talking to his cousins, his little cousin showed me his moms writing room, so I went in and was admiring the walls and all the personality that they had, his cousin had left and Daniel was there. He gave me a hug and was looking at me intently as if he were going to kiss me, mind you it took two weeks to hold my hand, and we were approaching a week after the opera, so we had been hanging out for about three weeks. I was all nervous inside, when from the other room we hear his younger cousin ask, Daniel when are you going to get married?? Yikes! talk about awkward, any way he stopped hugging me and went and talked to his cousin in the other room. We left, and then him and his brother invited me to go western swing dancing the following night, so I said sure.
They picked me up and we went to the place which is above Roy's pizza, here in Ephraim. Jacob was way cool and showed us some pretty awesome moves, I got picked up and flipped alot, it was way fun. The only horrible, terrible, worst part was the country music!! BLECH! As Addi once put it, "It sounds like a tone deaf hick." Of course that was more said about me making fun of Lady Gaga'sDTRed it up (ya know defined the relationship).
Since all of this fun stuff, Daniel has been testing the "M" word water, and yes I refered to it as the "M" word because I am not sure if I'm ready for that quite yet. Oh and remember that Eric guy, well yeah on Wed. I found out he got engaged the last week, WOWZA! I'm starting to believe that they put something in the water down here that makes guys want to get married so quickly. So will Mr. Welton be right and I be engaged by the spring? Will I go to California next weekend, and Oregon the weekend after that? Well the answer to the second question is absolutely!! but the first will remain a mystery! Wish me luck!
Love,
Afton Michelle
P.s. if you haven't tried touching someones elbow yet... silly silly silly, You know you want to!!