Halloween Videos

Our nights at Justins [always] include Jared DJ-ing with the infamous ipod, which happens to be located on top of the dryer. This halloween it was a particularly funny DJ performance because, of course, he was dressed up as a |SCARY| mummy. In this video he is doing his classic Jared dance known as the hounder, if you've known Jare for more then a week you've most likely seen him do this dance!



Sometimes at Justin's they turn on the black light and techno music and have a dance party. . At the start of this dance session there were more people than Jared and I {promise}, but for some reason they were all slow dancing to techno (who does that?). Then they started making out in the corner, which was very awkward [SO] Jared and I took over the dance floor and then it got so heated we decided to record ourselves. I am thinking about sending it into America's Funniest Home videos. . Do you think I have a chance?



Laughter was dancing with Andrea, I only caught the last second, literally .01, but the one second is totally worth it. I replay this video over and over to get the full effect! It's so dang hilarious. I love you, Laughter and Andrea!! MY new favorite couple :)



Last video that is on this blog is me going in a circle showing off the fantastic costumes from Halloween 2010! Everyone was so creative this year, I thought mine and Jared's costumes would be pretty hard to beat but the toy solider was definitely creative! I am impressed with many of the creative minds out there!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Lowe's not Walmart?

So just a quick follow up on my last post. I mentioned I lose my keys a lot. Correct?

I had some last minute Halloween costume shopping on my agenda for today. Jared met up with me at my office and we cruised to the closest fabric shop, which happened to tell us to go to Wal*Mart, which was odd to me. I tried to help out the little guys and still ended up at Wal*Mart.

We are running around like chickens without heads, crossing off everything on our list. Our last stop was face paint as we were walking over, I realize I don't have my keys [Surprised?]. Automatically Jared assumes they are in my car, but I remember dropping them in the parking lot right before I got inside [have I mentioned I am also clumsy?] - so point is, I know I had them. The sad part is, that I have a spare key in my wallet and Jared has one in his car so I wasn't as panicked as I should have been (If all else fails, I can break into my car -believe me on that one.) The only problem is that I don't have a key to my apartment except the one on my key chain.

So I start retracing my footsteps and Jared is off to find face paint, in hopes that we can kill 2 birds with one stone, type of thing. I go back to the door I entered and walk the same path, I retouch every shelf and rack I had previously touched. Without any luck, I call Jared and we head to Customer Service.

. . . In my last post the lady was very unhelpful, and now i was on a time crunch, so I was having bad flashbacks . . .

I get to the customer service desk and a guy from my college writing class is working the desk. I know that he just barely moved here from India and doesn't understand english very well. He is a very sweet guy, but he had no idea what I was asking him. Which made me wonder if maybe the girl from Lowe's had a similar issue with me, so I almost feel bad for calling her names. Anyway, another man comes up and asks if I have been helped, so I tell him my issue. He asks me to describe the keys. . .

Um there are 3 keys on one ring. . {need more description} uh well one goes to my apartment, one to Jared's house and one to my car... {more description} . . . c'mon they're KEYS!

He kinda smiles and hands me my keys! woo hoo!

What I like about losing my keys in Wal*Mart is that someone else finds them for me, when I lost my keys at Jareds house the other week, I had to search for hours (literally it was like 3 hrs), because I couldn't get into my apartment without them (seems to be a common issue in my life)

I am such a mess with losing keys and apparently phones.

I lose!

Anyone who knows me will say that I literally would lose my head if it was not attached. I lock my keys in my car at least 3 times a month, I lose them in my room probably twice a week. I used to lock my spare key in my car and I lost my hide a key.

So mostly it is just bad luck with keys. I have been living with that syndrome for a few years so I am pretty used to it.

But a new loss occurred on Wednesday night.

Jared and I had gone to Lowe's to pick up some carpet. We were only in Lowe's for about 20 minutes, we were loading the carpet for another 20 minutes. A pretty quick trip (so we thought). We left Lowe's as they were closing, so we were the last people in the store and all the doors were literally locked behind us.

We get about 2 minutes away from Lowe's and I go to grab my phone out of my pocket and I have a box cutter instead (wtf?). I start panicking and have Jared pull over, we get out and look under the seats, all over the cab and in the back of the truck bed to see if I had set it down without realizing it. I knew I had left it in Lowe's. I then take the next course of action and pour out my purse scrambling for the carpet receipt - as soon as I find it I I use Jared's phone to call the number on top and a recording comes on:

"Lowe's business hours are 9am - 9pm, you have reached this recording after normal business hours please call back tomorrow morning in business hours"

I just start pressing "0" like it is my last life line [tip: usually on recording when you can't find the right number to match your request 0 takes you to customer service]. Luckily by the graces of god a young (not very bright) woman picks up the phone. I start explaining the situation I lost my phone inside the store, I am sitting outside and someone NEEDS to let me in. This girl had the NERVE to tell me that she couldn't open the door and she could take down my info and call me IF they find my phone.

I ask her how she is going to call me DUH.. I live alone {lie}, I must have my phone for work {half lie} and that I am leaving town at 10am {TOTAL lie}. I start begging like a houseless person. She is standing strong. Now it's more of a 'phone boxing' match between her and I.

She didn't sound much older than me, she should know how important a phone is to a 20 year old girl! You know at a dramatically sad time like this you start thinking how much you use your phone (tear up here and cue the sad music).. I use it as an alarm first thing in the morning, I have my work/ school schedule with dead lines in my phone calendar, I have all my bank, utilities and any other account info so I can pay bills straight from my phone, I use it to distract myself in boring classes, not to mention the text, email and calling features.

:(

At this point I am a full blown basket case; my voice is raised, my heart rate is up, my eyes are bloodshot and I'm pulling my own hair. I am sitting right outside Lowe's front door, I can almost see the woman I am talking to. You can imagine, how angry it is making me that she won't let me in for less than 5 minutes! Seriously I was only at 3 counters the whole 40 minutes I was there!

Out of the corner of my eye, I see an old man at the lumber yard (who I know think of as my savior). Immediately Jared and I run to him like we're getting paid for it, we start banging on the window (im still on the phone with the girl) He lets us in -probably thinking that we've lost a small child inside - almost at the same second we get inside, the lady says that someone just brought the phone to customer service. I had to admit that we weaseled our way into the lumber loading center. Finally the beast of a woman brings me MY phone and finally I can breathe again! The next phone call I made was the best I've ever made... EVER!

This is my actual wonderful LG ALLY with Zebra Case (of course)

Moral of the story: Don't leave your phone in a store after it has closed!

Pppp Pppp

Do you remember when families used to sit around and enjoy each others company? That was definitely before Rob Dyrdeks fantasy factory, teen mom, 30 rock and definitely before DVR. I love DVR! I will literally go and find something to do while I record a TV show instead of watch commercials. Which makes me wonder how advertising is going to evolve.


Anyway I am missing my point here :) We decided to go to parents house for dinner a few weeks back. While we were there my dad brought out an unfamiliar object. It was a really dusty blue box. He opened and I am pretty sure a few moths flew out. Out of the box came the most fun I have had in a really long time. My dad had brought back from the grave old fashioned pictionary. Yes, we sat down and drew! No technology was involved. The most fun I have had in quite a while.


The teams were:
1. Christiaan and Noel
2. Miki and Jared
3. Tony and Lisa


Of course, Jared and I won. It was close for a minute there, only because the two babies Christiaan and Noel were going to quit if we didn't move them half across the board! My parents were good sports and took last place even though they deserved second!

My dad's victory dance:

In tribute to my second home Mazatlan

This beautiful melody takes place in my family's condo in Mazatlan, Mexico. I am so excited to cruise down there this year for Christmas (my family's long living tradition), I almost feel that feeling when you're holding your bladder because you have to pee so bad, but instead of a few minutes, it's a few months!

We plan to leave on December 16th after my finals, and drive down (like always) and if we don't have any engine issues, tire blowouts, leaving brennon at a randon gas station, held up at the border because of gun shots, caught in traffic because an accident and held up for 7 hours due to the one lane roads, food poisoning or any thing else we've come across in my twenty years of mexico going then we'll make it there in approximately 3 days. With any of the before mentioned then it will be about 4 days.

Then we will soak in the beautiful sun and relax our worries away and Jared and I will fly out on the 24th aka Xmas eve! The plane tickets are cheaper that day then any other. A few days later my parents will return around the 2nd - 4th of January.

HOWEVER, Jared and I are flying back to mexico, this time the beautiful Cancun in mid January. Then we will take the ferry over to the small island of Cozumel and spend 7 days recuperating from mazatlan there... Then back to reality.

jack-o-lanterns and booty dancing!

By now everyone knows that I have been dating my wonderful boyfriend Jared for just over a year and half. He's so awesome! This post is kind of a shout out to him.

Jared is incredible! He paints my toes in a cool different design every week! My mom owns a spa and so she has a plethora of nail polish and Jared and I entertain ourselves by painting my toes. however, he is not gay.. if he was gay I would be painting his toes. :) As a tribute to halloween he painted jack o lanterns on my toes! I don't think he could have done a better job...
by the way I do like my feet so i'm not too embarrassed usually but now that I look at them all big like that... boy i have long second toes!

Second of all, my Jared taught my mom (or tried to) to freak dance and shake her booty at our Sunday night dinner. It was so funny! Watch this video please! i LOVE my family!

One day I will get married.

Jared and I getting married is not very close. It is probably about as near as Pluto. So don't get your hopes up yet. I probably have around 3/5,000 non married friends left. However, all of the wedding smells linger in my nostril; the cake, the groupies, flowers, tuxes (which have a smell!), photographers, rings, and family! It excites me to think of mine and Jared's wedding.

I always imagined a really small wedding with a few close friends, immediate family and that's all. I like intimate settings, the issue is that I have been looking at wedding dresses lately and that all the sudden makes me want to invites the whole country to my special day! I want everyone to see me in my dress! Here are some I have been looking at:


I think this last one is my favorite. I hope that no womanly thieves steal my dress ideas. That would be a fist fight waiting to happen. I would get Jared to beat that beast up!


Moving on... I think that I will make the wedding invitations. I have seen an abundance of invitations in the last few months and don't get me wrong... they were all rad, however, I think I could make mine very, well me. I love Photoshop and not to mention I know a lot of printing techniques from working like an underpaid gopher -so- I hate the style blow, which is very common. I tried to blur it out to protect those in it and the company that took it, I don't want to be known for giving a nice lady a bad rep, I couldn't live that down!


Photographer wise I am not sure. I don't like many engagement pictures I have seen. They are all very predictable. Downtown with graffiti, washed out with only blues and greens vibrant. Once again the couples looked awesome I just don't like the photography. I think it comes with looking and critiquing pictures everyday for work, I have become very picky. I notice things that I would be happier not knowing. I do like this photography style though:


Now for the ring. I think whatever ring ends up on my finger. I WILL absolutely adore, because it was picked out by Jare hound and that is what is the most meaningful part for me. I don't want to go with him to find it, I want that to be his dirty deed. I do absolutely LOVE the floating diamonds though, I think they are called tension diamonds.
Maybe for our honeymoon we will go to Fiji?
Or Greece?
I have wanted to go to both places for most of my life, so that would definitely be a dream come true.

After the honeymoon and the wedding that is what I am excited for. I will finally live with my [1]one[1] true love Jared DeMann. He already owns a home in Draper, so we are going to reside there. I love the home, and since we've been together so long most of the decorating is me already. I won't need to go through and de-bacheloratize it. It's already mine and Jared's style so that is a very helpful non-stressful part that's taken care of.

Anyway this is all wishful thinking, because one day I {will} get married.... {I hope}.

Corn and Beds!

I don't know who thought of corn mazes but it probably went something like this:

Bob, "I want to waste all my crop of corn this year.."
Maud, "That sounds fun we should do something for the youth of our town."
Bob, "Okay Maud, how 'bout I draw a maze on paper then you cut the corn to match?"
Maud, "But Bob I am only 5 feet and 100 pounds it would take me hours!"
Bob, "Alright well you better get to it."

That sounds pretty historically correct to me. Anyway, Mary called me and asked if we were down to go to a corn maze and OF COURSE we were so down! We packed up and went to the crazy corn maze in West Jordan. It was a blast!! Our map was a picture of a dragon, but for some reason I highly doubt that from a satellite view we walked through a dragon maze. Call me crazy, but I am sticking TO IT!

To accompany our maze we bought a caramel apple and some mini doughnuts. Which were just splendid. The maze was an absolute blast - we didn't go through the scary one so it was $7 per person, but a whole night of fun! It probably took around 2 hours to finish the maze. We wondered around like chickens without heads, asking complete strangers if they had seen the post we were looking for. But like the amazing detectives we proved to be, by answering the correct Trivia questions about halloween (with the help of google and my phone) we made through the wilderness!!

mary, bryce, me and jared

Jared and I acting like the old lady and man with the pitchfork

Mary and Miki

Jared and Bryce at Post 7 (which was by far THE HARDEST to find)

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For the second part of our Saturday, Jared and I went to the DRIVE IN MOVIES! We saw the other guys which is too hilarious for words. Marky Mark and Will Farrel are a dream team.

It was so much fun to be back at the drive ins, just like the old days of trying to cuddle with a guy you like in high school and having no idea if he like you back! We borrowed our buddy taylor's truck for a small gas fee. He shoved a twin size mattress in the bed which was like shoving a tee shirt into a small can. We had blankets to keep us nice and warm which felt like we had a personal fire. Our treats consisted of sour gummies, sunflower seeds, and peach rings! Lucky us, we ended up going on the last day of good weather, because now it is too cold to go (displayed by the RAIN and storms today!)

Jared and I in the truck

me curled up - with the big screen behind me

houndsley and mikles


THE END

Underground tunnels of 25th Street

So my good pal, Darren, told me about underground tunnels in Ogden. I, of course, being the miki that I am was very intrigued. I have been reading about it and I really want to go there and walk around, but first I wanted to find out the real story behind the tunnels.

Apparently 25th street which is still the most popular street in downtown Ogden, used to be too dangerous for even Al Capone (or so the legend goes). There was so much crime in that 1 mile stretch that parents would tell their chicklets to never go there. Older member of Ogden, Utah remember the tunnels. They recall all of the scandalous activities you would imagine.



in the 1930's and 40's above ground Ogden looked perfectly sane and functional. But below was a different story. People from that day and age still don't talk about it much, as you can recon - because this is probably YOUR first time hearing about it, am I right? YES, I probably am. The tunnels originally came from the Chinese workers who had built them to surpass taxes and managed to keep them secret and even lived in the tunnels in the 1900's!


The tunnels were used for 'unacceptable business' and were actually very profitable, which is probably why most business and people that knew about them didn't say too much, you must have respect for people who think outside of the box and more underground. They were being used to solicit sex, sell drugs, bootleg alcohol and other promiscuous activities. Even the law enforcement was involved as deeply as the mobsters , because these tunnels of 25th street were THAT profitable.

Some people deny the tunnels were used for this purpose and they were vaults for storage that were connected. My question becomes - Why the hell would they need to connect vaults, aren't those suppose to be secret and hidden... hmmm wonder on my friends.

These tunnels were made and running during the prohibition so there were probably many bars under the town where the alcohol was being distributed.


what's an underground tunnel good for , if there isn't a prostitute or 2??


(^opium den - which is said to have been the drug of choice for these tunnels^)

So long story short... I bet those were naughty tunnels and unthinkable things happened down in those tunnels. I have never been particulary in love with Ogden, but the city (NOW) is starting to grow on me. I might just move down there and open up and underground promiscuous shop. I'd be a profitable lil' lady.