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by the end of this post, you are going to know almost all the least important things about me.

and that is pretty much a promise.

got the idea from my favorite blogger, emily...

but hers wasn't as obnoxious as mine is going to seem.

i found it best to start with my greatest fear.

don't judge me.

i know, they are small and supposedly more afraid of us than we are them, but i'll tell you now...

this theory has obviously not been tested on me.

i'd prove it wrong.

it's a little bit of an exaggeration when i say i could be watching tv in the living room and see a spider on the ceiling in the bathroom on the other side of the house...

but that just goes to tell you that i have an eye for spotting them, but i have to if i want to save myself from the dangerous, scary little shits... ick!

it only seems to make sense that i find my happy place after sharing my not so happy place.

i hate winter.

why i am still in iowa, well, i blame on my family. they are here and not leaving anytime soon... or ever.

and so i can't just up and leave.

but summer,

i love summer in iowa.

not too humid.

it's just right.

best part about summer is laying out, catching some sun.

and when i say lay out, i mean ONLY laying out. 

i will pay the $12 to get into king's pointe water park to just lay on a chair... no lie.

ok, sometimes, but very rare, do you find me on an inner tube on the lazy river, but still even then the most that gets wet are my legs, butt, and hands.

as much as i love summer
fall is my favorite time of the year.
a lot of it has to do with the changing colors of the leaves...

...but most of it has to do with the change in wardrobe.
and i think i can say that for every girl in iowa. 
i love when legging, boots, and scarves can be worn.
and its pretty much my outfit every day in the fall, winter, and beginning of spring.

ok i have a some minor major issue issues.

i like to call it collecting.

others might say it is hoarding to some degree.

but most people say i am a shopaholic.

i love those $5 bins at walmart.
oh, and black friday movies for $1.9?
movie heaven.
i'm going to have to say that all 171 movies came from walmart.
well, besides the select few that were gifts,
but they more than likely came from walmart as well.

willow tree dolls you can't judge me for. they really are just collectibles. (this is not all of them...) i have never spent a penny on one for myself. but i am rather obsessed with them. so, always the perfect gift for me no matter the occasion. clothing amazon.com malls they are all kind of the same thing. this was my closet at the beginning of the year. and this doesn't include the clothes in my dresser. i have added to it since. boy, is that the truth. and i'm not exaggerating when i say that in a six month period i have had 73 packages (that is not items, simply just packages) come in the mail from amazon alone. intervention? I'LL DO IT! i have yet to be diagnosed, but i'm pretty sure i have that binge eating disorder. (no, this is not a pregnancy picture) but no, really. people that don't know me, look at me and wouldn't believe that i have the stomach a five hundred pound man. well, no i don't really know that, but you get what i am saying... ...i can eat! and that is pretty much what i look like after eating, and i can guarantee that i was NOT even close to being full when i took this photo. oh the day my eating habits catch up to me... that won't be pleasant for anyone.  my idea of fun: #1 christmas 2012, keifer got me some sims 3 games, as well as, a wireless keyboard and mouse. so i hook my computer up to my tv and play sims on a 42" flat screen while sitting on the couch! i don't even play with sims characters, i just delete everything in the towns and rebuild it all. #2 ever since i was little, i've spent a lot of time at bowling alleys. my mom and dad used to bowl leagues and when i was eleven or twelve i was even on a league for a couple years. i sucked. so i stopped. but this last fall i got back into it. even got a new ball:) and just in case you were wondering what my high score is: 173. so i'm not amazing, but i'm working on it. plus that is a straight ball. few other "ideas of fun" without pictures: #3 sunday football with a drink in hand and some scratch tickets. #4 cleaning. #5 blogging! i don't care the time of day, breakfast food is thee best food. coffee is the best way to start any and every morning. whether it is with food or not, smart start to the day. but i do have to drown it with coffee creamer and twenty teaspoons of sugar. i can't eat them all the time, but pancakes are on the top of my list. but they have to have chocolate chips in them. otherwise i'm not a huge fan. i guess now is my chance to brag about how awesome my pancakes are. the twins say mine are so much better, so much fluffier than my mom's. when your children are against your cooking, that's saying something. and that is... my chocolate chip pancakes are better than yours mom! oh and keifer likes to mention how good they are to his friends from time to time. that also says something too, because i can't cook and when i try... it's close to being non-edible. i'm a girl so it should only seem normal, but it hasn't always been until my trip to texas this past december: my newly found obsession with nail polish. i never paint my finger nails, only my toe nails. the polish on my toe nails seems to last forever. but my nails, not even 20 minutes after applying the polish, i have a chip or smudge it. and as soon as i get a chip, i have a habit of picking it all off on ALL nails. so what was the point. when i graduated high school the plan was to attend hawkeye community college for the interior design program. i had the acceptance letter and an apartment lease signed. but i decided not to go and instead attend iowa central community college for absolutely nothing. this tv stand i designed first semester of my senior year in computer aided drafting. second semester i built it in  woods class. i had so much fun doing it, and i even enjoyed the complications that came with it. decorating, designing, organizing... that's my ideal career. i just don't want to do it every day and end up losing the fun and enjoyment i find in it. i hate needles. heads up... if you're going to stick a needle in me, you best be giving me a heads up. i don't want to see it. and i don't want to know when you are going to do it. but oddly enough, there is one needle i can't seem to get enough of. tattoos. how relaxing. and the sound of the gun is even better. i didn't start little or in the spot that would cause the least amount of pain. i started with 7 chinese symbols down my right side. been addicted ever since. and not that i have three or four (i added to one later), i can tell you i am not done getting them. i honestly can't see myself without a dog ever again. these two are my babies.  easton (left) and daisy (right). i got daisy for keifer when he graduated bvu almost 2 years ago. when he moved to des moines, he took her with him and i was rather lonely. so i got easton. got both of them from the same breeder. both chihuahuas. both runts of the litters. and boy, do we love them to pieces, even if easton is a little special in his own unique way;p and finally i will come to an end with what i have been living by for the last few months or so: definitely something i think a lot more people need to live by. my story is still in the very beginning.

clean freak/ocd/anal

i had said in my last post that i would update you all on my plans as they became a little more... real.

well... they still aren't quite yet.

but don't give up on me. things are just a little more complicated than i had anticipated.

on a side note though:

my last weekend in des moines wasn't a total fail.

i did have my job interview.

good news there...

i was offered the job, as a team leader...

and i accepted.

so if all goes as planned, i should start on february 3rd, or even if plans fall behind that schedule, i hope...

i am going to be a MAID! yes, i said maid.

(here is a link to THE MAID website.)

and only those of you that know me, know this is the perfect fit for me, for two reasons.

1. i am one of the most anal people you will ever meet.

my ocd is through the roof much of the time, and, well...

cleaning is a hobby.

i love waking up on sundays, opening the curtains, blasting the music, and just cleaning. 

bleach is a good friend of mine, though we have had some fights when it comes to laundry and the "redesigning" of my clothes.

note to self, and all of you: don't wash anything with anything that has touched bleach... unless of course it's whites or something that doesn't matter.

2. (keep in mind the job title as "team leader" when i share with you what was asked of me in my interview)

she asked is i would have a problem with telling the individuals on my team (3 other girls plus myself) that they need to return to a place and complete a job that wasn't finished (correctly)?

ok, like dillon said...

she will learn this will be no problem for miriah.

it's not that i abuse authority, i'm just not afraid to be the "boss" especially when it comes to protecting my own job, limiting the bad conversations with the boss lady.

so yes, perfect fit, and i am looking forward to it.

pay is kinda... eh... so i am looking for a part-time waitressing/bartending job on some evenings and weekends.

i also got to spend some valuable time with both keifer and dillon, two of my favorite people;)

and if you don't recall what all i wanted to do while away over the weekend, let me just say,

wishes came true, plus some.

i got to watch all that football i wanted to watch (and dexter as well). and while doing so...

i not only got that little caesar's pizza i wanted, but...

i also got that breakfast in bed supper on the couch, i thought was too good to be true. that kid is full of surprises;p keifer - 1, miriah - 0

scratch tickets was that "plus some" that i mentioned. it's pretty much that "80 year olds, that have been together forever, and have nothing exciting in or about their lives" side of us, but if we are doing this in our 20s already, what will we be doing when we actually are 80?!

there was quite a bit more to the weekend, like my first time to tasty tacos (not as good as i imagined with all the talk it gets, but decent), a late night trip to target to buy ONE towel (keifer only had two, both which were used by dillon and keifer to dry off after their showers... and i wasn't about to dry my face off with...well, one of their towels), a couple apartment tours, sleeping in, cleaning the guy's apartment...

overall, another good weekend:)

and i'll be going back on the 23rd after i am off work.

boy, am i tired of these long trips and living out of a suit case!

can't wait to be finally moved, whenever that may be!

until next time my friends!

i could go for a caramel moolatte right about now

well, if you didn't already know, let me inform you...

i feel like crap. 

and isn't that just perfect timing, being that monday and tuesday i have job interviews and doing some apartment searching. so that's just pooie!

but...

i'm sure my excitement and nerves will overcome and push aside how crappy i feel - ick!

anyways, i took some nyquil - usually i am out within a few minutes of taking it - and i seem to be more awake than i was before i took it. 

it could be that i have so much going on right now and my mind is in ten thousand other places, one not being that i need to get some sleep. 

or maybe it's that i can't breathe out of my nostrils?

either way, i'm not getting any decent sleep tonight, so i decided a random blog was due.

so...

here is my next few days in a nutshell:

(i'm thinking i will be too busy to post while it's all happening so i'll give a heads up and then once things are "set in stone" so the speak, i'll fill you in on my game plan)

saturday, or tomorrow:

i work until one o' clock and then i am headed to des moines.

i never know what the plans are upon arrival, but i sure would just like to lay in bed and watch playoffs and "dexter" all day, and maybe get some little caesar's pizza for supper, or keifer could make me breakfast supper in bed?!

sunday:

whether i get to watch playoffs all day on saturday or not, it's definitely a "tradition" that sunday is a very lazy day, and football is an all day thing in the nevius/madyun household, and that i am thankful for. 

it will definitely be needed because monday is going to be everything but lazy/relaxing. 

monday:

so far i have one interview on monday and one apartment tour afterwards. 

dillon, or course being he will be my roommate, and erin are tagging along for the tour (erin is worried about the location of the apartment and says we need to have her approval - such a motherly figure)

after the tour, i have a lot of places i want to stop at to fill out applications and hopefully talk to a manager on the spot.

ok, so i may not have a life the first few months after moving there, but i don't really have much of a life here in storm lake either... i hope to have two jobs, and maybe even three to get ahead on bills and a little money saved up for those emergencies.

tuesday:

i got a phone call today from a lady wanting to set up a time sometime tuesday to do an interview (i was napping when she called at 4 and when i woke at 6 i figured it was too late to call back so i'll get back with her monday if that isn't too late). hopefully a short interview before my return back to storm lake can be squeezed in.

well, that's that.

more or less, just waiting to know if dillon can do this as soon as i'm wanting to. 

it is kind of rushed - i can somewhat agree on that - but i also see there being no other way of doing it. living here and working where i work, there is no saving up so that i could possibly do this at a later date. 

my paychecks now, just get me by every two weeks. 

and well, i'm ready to get this new beginning started for myself:)

not only will i be closer to keifer, dillon, erin, shane, and the girls (and all those bvu guys) but hopefully i will get to see more of my old friend libbie, and even emily and jason when they return to the area every once and a while!!!

plans as 2014 rolls in

a little "history" behind why i am still in good ol' storm lake:

spring of 2012, keifer and i were hoping to move to des moines so he could attend grad school starting that fall. 

we viewed a wide variety of apartments, making a number of trips to des moines on our weekends off, but he wasn't accepted due to the large number of applicants that year. so we got to stay in bv county, working minimum wage jobs, partying it up at malarkey's on weekends - whoop, whoop! 
(oh, and i can't leave out that we got to spend valuable time with my twin sisters and wonderful mommy!)

but no, really i am glad we got to stay. 

he got his car paid off. and we got our first place together that not only felt like our home, but it was cheap. so we got to save up some money... 

only so when march 2013 came along, keifer could get a job in des moines, leaving me in storm lake (little more to this part of the story, but we will just leave that part out - awkward and emotional). 

but good for him. he did just graduate from bvu with a degree in psychology, and was taking beatings and cleaning up shit (literally) at his job at the time - not really putting those thousands of dollars in loans to use.

but as the new year comes along...

...so do new plans.

and now that dillon has moved back to iowa (for good, we hope), those plans have been jump started into motion. 

something i have been wanting to do for almost two years now, but life throws those stupid curve balls, and well, those ideas, hopes, dreams, stay just that... ideas, hopes, dreams. 

so, thank you dillon for moving back - because now I AM MOVING TO DES MOINES... or so the plan goes!

i have been filling out job applications here and there for the past week now.

dillon and i have showed interest in a few rentals.

and well, i have already told everyone i am doing it, so i HAVE to (can't be looking like a liar or someone that fails to create their own path).

latest i want to be there is the first of march.

so hopefully my applications get looked at right away and i hear back from some places.

once i have a job set, i can really buckle down on finding dill and i a place to live - roomies:)

and for those of you wondering where school comes into play...

i suck.

i seriously just suck at the whole school thing.

that is, yet again, on hold until i can save up the money to pay for classes on my own - i no longer get any financial aid help (i have dropped too many classes).

i want to do it. so i am going to do it. i will just be going at it a lot slower than many others:/

once things start falling into place, you can count on hearing more from me - i'll keep you all posted.

last night of 2013

what a night!

ever heard  of bottle service?

i never had until keifer informed me that was what we were doing on new years eve night.

let me just share with you what google told me it was before i fill you in on our experience: 

"bottle service is the sale of liquor by the bottle in lounges and nightclubs.

the purchase of bottle service typically includes a reserved table for the patron's party and mixers of the patron's choice. bottle service can include the service of a VIP host, who will ensure that patrons have sufficent mixers and will often make drinks using the patron's liquor bottle and mixers. the purchase of bottle service sometimes results in cover charge being waived for the purchaser's party, and often allows patrons to bypass enntrance lines. the tip is also often included in the price."

i don't know about you, but i read this and first thought was: "no way. i'm going to 'be rich' for a night."

but anyways, our experience:

no one knew what was going on. i guess it started with eight people paying their share of the price. 

those eight people were suppose to receive one bottle of liquor and two bottles of champagne.

but... those eight people invited 1000 friends of their own each (ok, so maybe that is an exageration), and just because fifty people show up doesn't mean you get more bottles.

finding this out maybe two hours before hand, keifer and i packed my purse with nine shooters, and we "pregamed" with some beer.

(remember: we pregamed with beer and packed shooters. for those of you that have never heard "beer before liquor, makes you sicker. liquor before beer, you're in the clear." well knowledge of this saying helps understand why remembering what i just mentioned, is important - maybe a hint to where my night is going to be going)

so, at "the exchange" - the club we went to, which is on the third story - the line to get in is on the first floor right as you enter the building, but as google said, we got to move to the very front and didn't have to pay the new years eve cover charge of $30.00 per person.

we were then escorted to our section that was roped off by those thick red velvet cords like they have in movie theaters. and jarael's (keifer's roommate and good friend who i have known longer than i have keifer) name on a "reserved" card. 

...so far so good.

but, like we imagined, that one bottle of liquor didn't last long - maybe 5 minutes.

so, molly (one of keifer and jarael's friends) bought me a drink at the bar - at the time i thought i could use another one.

anyways, everything was going good: met some new people, took a lot of photos, had a lot of laughs, took a few shots - that's not good -but overall, just a fun time.

...and then, miriah (yes, i refer to myself in third person quite often) went from fun to "keifer, you need to get me home now"... there was no inbetween.

but it was maybe five minute until midnight and he insisted we stay that much longer.

and i am glad we did, because this being our forth new years "together", we finally got our first new years kiss - i know, how cute;)

anyways, we made it home safe all thanks be to keifer!

i felt gross and don't remember a thing after my head hit the pillow.

so it was good night to me with my lesson learned...

liquor before beer, ALWAYS!

new years day was relaxing - well needed.

and even though i had a blast the night before, i'm thinking next year we should just stay in for the night with some munchies, movies, wine, and board games?!

christmas with keifer

i am thee most impatient person you will probably ever meet...

the number of times i "threatened" keifer with sending him a picture of his christmas present probably cannot be counted on my fingers and toes alone.

now, since keifer dropped me off at the airport, he had to pick me up, obviously. 

we talked on the phone a few nights prior to my return home and decided to (ok, so i decided and then told him he had to) bring our presents for each other so we could do christmas at the airport.

well, plans changed...

we had christmas in the car in a kum & go parking lot - both classy and romantic;)

so, my gift from keifer:

first off, he had flowers for me when he got out his car when picking me up from the airport - melt. my. heart.

simple, but what girl doesn't love receiving flowers from her lover?! i'd take dandelions... cause even those are "flowers".

but the real gift was yet to come.

a heart necklace from tiffany's. SCORE!

thank you keifer (i am wearing it as i speak).

and keifer's gift:

he got a few from me this year, but the larger gift is a christmas/birthday present which you will understand why when you see what it is.

like i have mentioned, i did a lot of shopping in texas on vacation. 

pac sun had some awesome deals, and i know keifer has been needing some new tops so i got him a few... along with another beanie - his collection of beanies is getting quite expansive all thanks to me!

and now that bigger gift i was talking about.

a couple months ago...

randomly...

i get this text from keifer...

(i wish i could remember what was said before his text - great change of subject, right?!)

so what did i get him for christmas, you ask?

(the actual present was in the mail, so i created a slide show on my tablet for him to "open")

 yes, i got him concert tickets to luke bryan (main event), lee brice, and cole swindell.

something we are both very excited for and looking forward to!

you could say we both did a fantastic job on christmas present shopping for each other this year:)

why blog?

ok, so maybe this should have been the first post...

a little reasoning behind why i started this blog - 

well here ya go.

i have actually had a blog before, but i never shared it with anyone - i believe i had the privacy setting set to "private", because at that time, i didn't know anyone really blogged.

but just recently, blogging has seemed to be more... popular.

i've even became a dedicated "follower" of a few blogs myself, especially of emily's, which you can find here. 

it's actually because of her that i finally decided to get back in the blogging world. 

i thank emily for this new hobby i have taken on, but facebook and twitter need some mentioning as well.

so, i know i'm not the only one thinking both social networking sites are too much and not enough at the same time.

 what i mean is this:

some people post/tweet just way too much information, too often, and i've even found myself reading more negative than i do anything positive - that is just sad.

while at the same time, twitter allows only 140 characters, and that hardly ever seems to be enough "so ur tweets start 2 look sumthin lik dis so u have enough room 4 it all," and for me, whether it is a tweet, a text, or a college paper, i cannot stand reading something like that. 

basically, i love to keep up on the lives of those in my life. i like to think being positive is the only way you'll ever be happy in life. and i enjoy writing - ok i do, but when i get to talk about my own life and use my choice of writing style, i enjoy it even more. 

and well, i don't find that in twitter or facebook anymore, so here i am. 

there will be plenty more to come:)