London Called and it wants me back

London Called and is continuing to call. It was beautiful and worth all the time spent pining for it from my youth until I was finally able to spend 10 days there. I got to see all sorts of sites, visit part of the Jane Austen Mecca (Bath) and hear English accents galore. Dreams really do come true.

Now the goal of my life is find either a job there or a way to live there permanently. Maybe I can find someone that needs a mail order bride. (J/K)

There were of course some things I did not get to see such as....



and....



But I guess we don't always get to see everything that our heart desires.

Where art thou motivation?

Summer school. I loathe it. 4 classes in 10 weeks might be okay if they didn't suck like mine do. With papers due every other day. Boo on the person who came up with these signature assignments. They are kind of ridiculous to do when there is not school in session, especially when you need to do interviews with school officials. I just keep telling myself that it is for a good purpose, EARLY GRADUATION! Well accelerated at least. December is only a few months away now and if I ever get my student teaching placement for the Fall I am positive it will go quickly. Hopefully this loss of motivation is just a summer thing and not a senioritis type thing. Trying to teach high schoolers when I am not wanting to be there probably not a good thing.

But really all I want is for January to be here. January 13th to be specific. I finally get to go to the one place I have been wanting to go to. That's right my sister Celeste, her roommate Sarah and I are planning a graduation trip to England in January. Yes it will be cold, I know I have said that I hate it but it is ENGLAND!!!!! Land of Jane Austen, British accents, and British actors such as Richard Armitage and JJ Feild. <3

LONDON IS CALLING!

RICHARD ARMITAGE

JJ FEILD

All of these are well worth enduring the cold. I CANNOT wait.

My birthday was yesterday. Happy 29th Birthday to me! I love my birthday. I was babysitting most of the day and then had class. Plus an Allergic reaction. Luckily the day before I was able to have a British movie marathon. (I'm in love with all things British) I loved having my friends over to visit and watching my favorites on the screen. LOVE IT!

School Daze!

I do not post very often but it basically because I have no time. When I do have time I just want to sleep, which is a time consuming task in and of itself. Second semester of grad school is upon me, heaps and heaps of it. As a collective we heard that first semester was going to be the hard one, well let me tell you something about school officials. They lie. In comparison to right now, first semester = cake. After a perfect semester last time, I am tempted to just go for a C in one class. Which I do not really want to do but I like I said I might be tempted. I guess it is only a couple more weeks until Spring break so I can do it. "Just keep swimming" right?

I was able to go up to Utah for my old roommate Jen's wedding. I am so excited for her and Curtis. She looked beautiful and it was so great to see how happy she was. Now Utah for me is cold. And I did complain though I really did not want to, but I was kind of happy I was flying home instead of driving...though if I didn't have class I would have driven. And flying saved me from probably a thousand punches, due to the fact that Ash and I made up some games that are really only applicable in Utah. I also dropped my camera and broke it the very first night we were there...boo. Hopefully it is still under warranty, one drop should not equal broken. Those things need to have some durability. The year of the wedding has begun. Two big ones down and like 7 or 8 to go. It is only February and they don't seem to be stopping anytime soon.

Spring Break = visiting one of my most favorite families. I never know how they are going to act around me. Either like I am their best friend or their boss. They were on their best behavior the last time I was there. Let's hope that novelty hasn't worn off. It also means a trip to a different singles ward. Which I love, oh not for the boys, but because people say the most random things whenever I go to those wards. I love it. I am sure I will appreciate them someday when I looking through my journals. Utah was brilliant for my own personal quote machine, let's hope Cali will be wonderful too.

I have put off my homework long enough. Time to get busy.

Not a whole year

Apparently I am a bigger slacker at this whole blogging thing than I thought I would be. Almost a whole year has past and I think I might have something interesting to write about now.

Let's see why I don't I start off with school. I have begun a Master's program at Arizona State University West. I love some of my peers, the classes are good (except for one in which I think that the teacher is really just sucking life out of me). The overall management of the program is faulty and crappy and poorly done....you get the idea...but I will finish by next December so that is great.

I don't know why I haven't blogged, I mean this was the year of my 10 year reunion from high school...i didn't go, $40 to sit at a bar and watch a bunch of people I didn't even like then, I will pass thank you for the offer though...so big news. I am now old. I am also doing a student placement at the old stomping grounds. It is like being in high school again, with some of the same teachers even. Ah going back to the good old days of high school. Maybe those will happen in the next few weeks.

I am a little concerned with how many more times they are going to split the Deer Valley 2nd Ward. I think we are at like 60 Young Single Adults now, and I should even be there so like 59. But when you have a housing situation that makes you feel like you are a child in a divorced household, and your parents get you every other weekend. Some weekends I am living in a house that would require me to go to the Peoria branch and the other weekends I should be going to Phoenix North. But I think I am just going to stick with Deer Valley until I get a more permanent address.

Anyway, I think I will peace out on here for now. Hopefully I will continue to have some things that I feel I should share. Nothing exciting happens in my life. But I guess I could always just make it up. That would be more fun wouldn't it?

Getting to know you

I was playing basketball tonight with some acquaintances, was again reminded that I have not yet joined the world of blogging. I figured that since there was a complaint about a hard foul I might have made that I should join. (Just in case it is written about I have to defend my need for it.) While I am working on some material for my defense, I will just say a little about myself.

My name is Celena, obviously. I was born in Colorado, raised mostly in Arizona with a horrendous and traumatizing 3 year stay in Rockford Illinois. It is about an hour away from Chicago and boring. I luckily came back here when I was in 4th grade and after starting my 3rd school for that year we settled down in the Deer Valley area. I went to Barry Goldwater graduating in 1999...ten years next May...woo hoo. Following that I went to Northern Arizona University where I graduated in Criminal Justice, so I could do absolutely nothing with that degree. I was also lucky enough to have a roommate that was LDS and I got baptized in 2001 One of the greatest days of my life. I graduated from NAU in 2003 and basically have done nothing since...good times, good times. I do have a goal to become a teacher but that is proving to be more difficult than I thought.

I was raised by my mom. I have two sisters, one older than me and one younger (thus I have middle child syndrome). I also have an adorable little niece, Summer. She is the cutest thing, I love her so much.

***Disclaimer- I am a huge Suns fan so as the season gets rolling, I will probably be more absent from activities. It has nothing to do with you...I swear. I am just obsessed.