St. George

Five months may sound like a long time, but I am here to say that it is not! In the last five months I have moved across the state, started school, been reminded of how much I dislike math, made four new wonderful friends, fallen in love with zumba, realized that while I love watching Ballet, I don't really love Ballet class, started a new job and am learning more about myself then ever before. And these are just the things that I can think of off the top of my head! I'm doing some amazing self discovery. While not all of it is positive, I'm slowly learning how to turn the negative things into strengths. Moving across the state might be the best thing I have ever done for myself. There is something about St. George that makes me feel alive. It might be the warm weather and the red rocks. It might be that I'm bettering myself through school. Or it could be that the move signified a fresh new chapter in my life. Whatever the reason, St. George is where I'm supposed to be.

Everything is new to me! In particularly dance. The whole process of creating and understanding dance is unfolding for me in a new and amazing way! I have only been in school for one semester but I'm understanding dance in a whole new light! Its incredible! Dance is an art form best learned outside of one's comfort zone. Being able to push myself and those around me in a way I have never been pushed before is refreshing. I'm relearning everything!

School is good. I find myself enjoying most of my classes. With math being the exception. I really like my English teacher and am learning a lot from her! (with some help from Chelsea I have written a couple of pretty good papers!)

All of my other classes are going pretty well. Math is, and always will be, my enemy. My Dance 1010 teacher has a very thick Asian accent and it gets kind of hard to understand her. My ballet class is good, but I think I will leave Ballet to the pros. My Modern class is awesome and I have a great teacher!

I have started a totally new job! For the last 3 and 1/2 years I tellered at Cache Valley Bank and when I moved to St. George I tried to get a job in banking, but to no avail. I was, however, offered a job at The Brick Oven. I have worked there now for just over one week and its going pretty well. It kind of sucks cause I don't get to keep any of the tips from the tables I wait on because I'm still shadowing other servers. So I'm pretty much working for 2.13 an hour. OUCH. My manager tells me I will soon have my own section of table though and then I will get to keep the money I earn. That will be awesome.

Easter is soon approaching and Mom and Dad will be visiting me down south this year :) While I shall miss the other members of my family, I look forward to not making a four hour drive for the glazed ham. Which by the way, is my favorite meal of the year!

Alright people, this is all for now. I will let you know how the end of the semester goes!

CH-CH-CH-Changes!!

Its official. I'm moving! Its been in the works now for almost 4 months. But I did it! I'm moving to St. George and will be attending Dixie State Collage! It has been a very tough decision. I've lived in Logan for three and a half years now. I have many dear friends and memories here. But its just time for me to move on. I'm not in love with Logan the way I used to be. And I had to be honest with myself. I'm just not as happy here as I want to be. I have a pretty good idea as to why that is. but I'm just not ready to admit it yet. But I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to go to a new place with new people and new experiences!! A place where people don't know anything about me. A new start! Yes, that is what Celeste needs. The closer I get to moving the better I feel about everything. But in the interest of keep this short and not repeating myself eight million times, I'm simply going to make two lists.

Things I'm ready to say "So long!" to

1. Negative number weather
2. My job. My boring, dead end job
3. All the boys in Logan. No offence to you nice young men. But there are two really awesome things. Dating and Commitment. Learn how to do them both!!!
4. Hicks
5. The age 22. Not really been the best year of my life. I'm ready to welcome 23 to the stage
6. People being all put off cause I'm not in school
7. Rude old people who are customers where I work
8. Bad radio stations. I promise that country and hip hop are not the only good kinds of music out there people.
9. The smallest mall I have ever seen. Christmas shopping is near impossible here in Logan.
10. knowing what to expect out of the day when I wake up in the mornings. bring on the unexpected!!

Things that I'm not ready to leave

1. Valley Dance Ensemble. This has been my favorite dance experience of my life (so far)The women which I have had the honor of dancing with for the last four years have impacted my life in many many ways.
2. My friends.
3. Summer and Fall in Logan
4. My very own, Shared with no one, apartment. *sigh* roommates here I come. Please be good to me.
5. Cafe Ibis, Cafe Sabor and Takara Sushi
6. My neighbors
7. Most of my co-workers
8. The snow. while I am ready to say goodbye to the super cold weather. I still love the snow.
9. Being able to just drive home last minute if I want to
10. And of course, my family. I've always been close to my family and its going to be odd to be so far away from them.

So, there you have it. My last day of work will be December 17th. Then I move into my new place in St. George on January 7th. Its all happening so fast and I wish it was happening faster!!

Summer update

With every intention of writing a blog every month filled with pictures and all sorts of information I started this blog.As you can see I have not reached said goal. Summer has been kinda busy here for Celeste. Which is a good thing for me and a boring thing for you...until now! Woo Hoo!

Well summer started out terribly wet. Which would have been fine with the exception of it being freezing!! My landlord had turned my heat off in my apartment much too early in the year and I was quite cold every time I was home. But I lived through the cold and was thrown into the sweltering heat of Logan summertime. My apartment has no air conditioning. Lower cost, sweatier Celeste. Lucky for me I have a window that opens and a fan that works! Okay, okay. I know you don't read my blog for a weather update in Logan Utah, so I will get down to the good stuff.

I'm glad to say that I attempted to do something cool for the fourth of July, and I succeeded. That is to say I had fun. I invited a few people over for a BBQ at my place. I ventured out and bought my own charcoal grill! Only twenty bucks at Walmart (whom I'm not a big supporter of, but I needed a grill) We had some good hamburgers and even the wonderful Kyleigh Adamson drove up to Logan to see me!

The 24th of July brings one of the countries biggest car shows to Logan. The Cruise In. I had never seen the Cruise In and Michelle and I decided it was time I did. So we sat out in my front yard with my neighbors and a couple hundred people I didn't know and watched the cars go by. And there were some pretty sweet cars.

This summer also brought a visit to the Manti Temple to see the Manti Pageant. Along with my parents I brought Hilary Hall with me. The pageant was of course very good. Before the actual pageant started Hilary and I checked out our suroundings. Pretty normal stuff. Food booths and merch booths. AND some people selling chocolate dipped strawberries...on a skewer!!

best invention EVER.

But I think the best part was the the older lady in an electric wheelchair holding a big ol poster protesting our president.....

And yes, that does read "Impeach our gangster government". Shouldn't it be "gansta"? Just sayin.

Okay my friends, its time to pull out the big guns. My trip to Disneyland. Thats right, Michelle and I spent three days hopping from Disneyland to California Adventure. We flew out to Cali and caught a shuttle to our hotel and ate and a great little Italian place called "Maurice's"... I think. And I think its safe to say, it might have been the best pizza I have ever put into my mouth. It was so good! And the next morning we headed out to the happiest place on earth. And needless to say, we were pretty blasted happy to be there. Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Tea Cups, Indiana Jones! Then we hopped over to Cailfornia Adventure. Tower of Terror, Soarin' over California, Tower of Terror, California Screamin', The Swings, Tower of Terror, Tower of Terror. (are you catching on to which ride was our favorite?) Back over to Disneyland. Space Mountain and Indiana Jones! I could go on and on! We also got to see at show at the Golden Horseshoe Review, Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. They never fail to make me laugh. California Adventure is featuring a new water show called "World of Color" and it was freaking amazing!! They even used fire! If you get a chance, go see "World of Color"!! Totally worth your time!! Okay, here are a few pictures for Cali!

Busy, with a capital B!

new post coming soon!! and its gonna be a BIG one!!!

Its Raining

Its raining... again. I thought the saying was April showers bring May flowers. Yet here we are on the 24th of May and its raining. Shouldn't it start feeling like summer now? I guess I should just be glad that its not snowing. Which I am glad for that.

In the last few weeks: dance parties, moving, saying temporary goodbyes, Mother's day,more rock climbing, as always music, Family Time Capsule, old school Nintendo and some good movies.

May 8th marked the end of the semester here in Logan Utah. And to celebrate we threw a dance party. Pretty much awesome. Seth knows how to DJ a party for sure. Last time we had a dance party we got busted by the cops for the noise ordinance. The best part was the cops looking in the window trying to see the (non existent) alcohol and drugs. Ha ha. We were just a bunch of Mormon kids listening to loud music. It was pretty great. But alas. No cops this time!
Was a great party! Matt and Bryce made many many smoothies throughout the night and at the end of the party Matt informed us that we had consumed a pound and a half of sugar as a whole! A little excessive if you ask me.

I'm all settled into my new apartment. its pretty awesome! Living alone is pretty much the best! I thought that maybe for a little while I would be nervous to be totally alone at night but its not been bad at all! The only thing that sucks right now is my landlord decided that early May would be a good time to turn the heat off. Which maybe would have been fine if it hadn't been raining every night for the last week! My apartment has been freezing for a week now! Not very fun in the mornings. Oh well, hopefully it will all be over soon! Bring on the hot weather!!

The only thing I hate about summer is that for the last three years the starting of summer has also been the starting of goodbyes. Every year I make all these wonderful friends and then when summer gets here they think its okay to leave Logan. Thankfully this year the goodbye is only temporary. Matt, Bryce and Seth are going to Canada for a week and then Matt and Bryce are taking off for Europe for a good month and a half. And then in July Seth is leaving for Alabama for a month for ROTC training. I will be going to St. George here in a few weeks, but only for a a few days. Should be good. Hopefully lots of sun and pool time.

Mother's day was pretty good. Rather mellow this year seeing as Mandy is in Alaska right now. (miss you Mandy) But as always it was good to see the family! Mom got the measuring cups that she asked for and some good bath salts and of course flowers! All of which she greatly deserved! Thanks for being an awesome Mom, Mom!!

The more often I go the more I love Rock Climbing! It has become a regular thing for me now and I expect to go at the very least twice a week. I feel like I'm getting better, which is a great feeling.
Operation "Celeste buying lots of music" has come to a slow. Music is expensive. Though it will still continue, just at a slower pace.

My family and I recently put together a time capsule. Not to be open until 2020. This project was more fun than I had anticipated! Which shouldn't have surprised me! My family is one of the fun families of the world!
We each filled out a questionair that Mom made for us and we went around and each shared our answers and then after that we all contributed items we thought we would want to remember or see in ten years! Lots of pictures went in and small keepsakes! I look forward to April 2020!

Played super old school Nintendo with Hilary and Michelle last night. It was pretty much the highlight of my weekend! We had a lot of fun! After we watched Mulan and of course sang along to the songs ha ha. All in all a very good Sunday.

The last couple movies I have seen in the theaters are "Iron man 2" and "How to Train your Dragon". I enjoyed both, though I think the first Iron man had a stronger storyline. But it was still worth my time. Robert Downy Jr. is very attractive. Just wanted to throw that in there.
"How to Train your Dragon" was very cute and fun, I would love to go see it again!

Well there you have it! Until my next need to blog!
Celeste

Phew

I can breath again. The last few weeks have been crazy! Go go go all the time! I have a love/hate relationship with that.
Valley Dance Ensemble's performance went very well. Lots of positive feed back! Thank you to all who came to support your local performing company! This years show was called "moveable parts". Brilliant if you ask me. Ten points to Suzann who came up with the name. We had children's classes as well as adult classes who showed different pieces of work. And of course the actually VDE company. Which consists of Suzann Brown, Ember McDaniel, Tessa Evans, Lori Caily and me, Celeste Nelson.
There was an after party of sorts, which included some killer good food and lots of good people with lots of good things to say.

Getting ready to move, again. This time to my very own studio apartment. The landlord is letting me fix the place up. Painting the walls and stuff like that. I've put a very pretty blue (Neptune blue) on the main wall. looks great! Getting excited to have my own place to take care of. I even have my own porch! woo hoo!

Work is finally starting to pick up. Which is good cause I hate it when everything is done and I'm caught up on everything and there is still five hours left of work. The only good part of that is that I can read my books. Currently in the middle, well actually the last few chapters of "to kill a mocking bird" love it so far. Excited to finish it! Next book on my list? "The Book Thief". Been wanting to read it for some time now and I keep hearing about it from my sisters and how great it is. So thus, I shall read it.

Super excited for this summer! I hope to have a lot going. Starting with a camping trip later this month and then a trip to St George! And nothing is planned for the rest of the summer but that's good! lots of free time for last minute trips and such! I hope this year is a hot one! I'm extremely sick of this cold weather. Its just not good for my well being. Talk about the winter blues. sheesh.
I'm also planning on going to A LOT of concerts this summer. Hopefully starting with Paramore, Relient K and Fun. Then with any luck 3oh!3. And after that Imogen Heap and lots of others!

I'm working on building up my music collection. It was impressive before, but I'm sad to say that most of my collection was burnt Cd's. Which made me a hypocrite. I personally feel that if you enjoy a certain band or musical artist. you should support them. BUY their music. don't steal it from them. Thus begins our journey into Celeste's totally paid for music collection. Its already well on its way. Though I'm not even half way through yet. Buying Cd's is expensive. But in my mind, worth it. Totally worth it. So if anyone is looking to get me a gift, music is the way to go with me!
I also feel this way about books. As much as I love the library, I like having my own personal library. I find it hard to give back a book after I have read it and loved it. I feel that it deserves to be put on my shelf in hopes of being read by me and my family for many years to come. After all, I did love it.
I have a hard time with the idea of the new "kindle". Which is like a big ipod for books. You can read the book right off the screen and the device holds a crazy amount of books. But where is the joy is turning the pages? Maybe I'm just crazy, But holding a book is a wonderful feeling.

Well! Until next time!
Celeste

Valley Dance Ensemble 2010

Yes this is the Semi-Professional dance company I dance with. We are hot.

The best neighbors ever

Today Logan Utah woke up to about 6 inches of snow. thanks mother nature, that's just stellar. As I look out my window feeling like I'm stuck in Narnia and their never ending winter with no Christmas, I decide that it would be a good idea to warm up my car. So I venture out into the snow and start my car. As I go about my daily ordeal the time comes that I must go to work. I prepare myself for cold hands seeing as my window scraper is a small one. But when I walk outside my neighbor, Matt is just about finished cleaning off my car of the accursed snow. Saving me from cold hands and getting me to work on time! Thanks Matt! You helped start my day off right!!!

In no particular order...

So, the last few weeks in no particular order are... Dino museum, watching some guys blow glass and (mom don't freak out) holding a gun for the first time....a really really really huge gun. And no it wasn't loaded.

Giant Sea Turtle thing (yes they used to exist)

me holding Seth's gun, not so sure I liked it. but I posed for a picture anyway

Watch some of these being made, it was really super awesome! I wish i could learn how to do something cool like this!

Seth holding Seth's super huge gun.


Devin and his Dino friend

Me and my Dino friend

Those are the most exciting of things that has happened. But on top of that, I've been making new friends left and right! I have wonderful neighbors who are swiftly becoming wonderful friends! And just in the nik of time too! Making new friends and strengthening old friendships are my all time favorite things! Nothing beats a good friend :)

Dance is crazy busy. Rehearsal all the time! Its a love hate relationship. Our performance is April 24Th, 2010 at the Ellen Eccles Theater in Logan Utah. The title this year is Movable Parts. Im performing in three peices and I'm setting four. Its the most involved in a show I have been since I started with Valley Dance Ensemble almost four years ago. I love to be that involved its just proving to be more time consuming that I had first thought. But it will be very rewarding in the end. Just gotta stick it out!! This time of year is always stressful for me.

Life in general right now is really really good. Summer is almost here, Easter is on sunday (my favorite meal of the year) Im moving into my very own apartment soon and I didnt have to wear a coat to work today! woo hoo!

I'm rediscovering The Rocket Summer. Falling in love with Bryce Avery all over again. It feels good.

Also kicking trash at rock climbing. Finally got a trail that I have been working on for the last couple days. Nailed it. I was very proud. time to move on to harder things!!

well I think that pretty much sums it up!!

not much of a poet, but writing what you feel helps

Its amazing how a few simple words can change your life and how you thought it would turn out. Its also amazing the emotions one girl can feel. And all at the same time. Whats even more amazing is that I was able to organize those emotions...kinda. And rather roughly. But at least I tried.


losing
fighting
winning
lost
hope dangling
cant reach

screaming
crying
fighting
uncertainty looming
words echoing

accepting
receiving
welcoming
new life evolving

Top Ten

Top ten little things that BUG!

1. People who can't take a compliment
2. When someone breaks their promise
3. When my music player runs out of batteries
4. People who use improper English
5. Know-it-alls
6. Hey U, L8ter, LOL, 4ever,
7. Over use of the word "legit"
8. Chap lips
9. One missing earring
10. Not having anything interesting to blog about

Top Ten little things that make me HAPPY!

1. Surprise visits
2. Daisies
3. Long hot showers
4. Three day weekends
5. Cheap jewlery
6. Cheap mexican food
7. Dancing
8. Old friends
9. New friends
10. A good book

Im happy to say that the list of things that bug, took much longer for me to write then the list of things that make me happy :)

My sister writes poems

My sister Mandy travels, A LOT. At times she is only home for a few days before she heads off to another destination! My other sister Chelsea writes poems, one of which she recently wrote for and about Mandy and her travels. One I would like to share here. Enjoy!

in twenty seven years

each time your foot steps

onto another jet plane

i can feel a separation,

a distance, a cavity of space

as though the womb of our

mother that once held each

of us has nearly forgotten

that your blood and mine

are a mixture of the same

resonance, with intonations

that are different, but

complimentary

so many things know you.

so many places have seen you.

the most emerald of grass

and bluest of ice-

sea levels of height

and depth- and each

enhance the color after you have

explored them, changed them,

loved them

while the space moves

in and out of us, space never splits,

never divides, and never damages.

rather embellishes an alliance

that could never be forged by

time or expanse. we are cellularly

fastened, more than blood and water.

everything you see, makes my

life more amplified. every word

i write sits in your ear

you are more than my sister.

you are my world traveller,

my seeker of newness,

my fighting ally,

my maker of music.

-Chelsea Nelson

Birthday celebrations and the weekend

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear sisters!!! Happy Birthday to yooooouuu!!!

Celebrated some birthdays this weekend! Mandy's, which was on the 19th of February. and Chelsea's which will be on the 25th of February and mine which is on the 5th of March!

woohoo! Chelsea will be thirty, Mandy is now 27 and I will be turning 22. We have a good range of age in our family.

To celebrate Chelsea, Mom, Dad and I (Mandy could not join us seeing as she is in New Zealand) went to Fat cats for some pizza, pasta and bowling!! Chelsea won the first game and Dad won the second game. For dessert Mom brought these amazing sugar cookies! sooo good!!

Mandy you were greatly missed! And we talked about you and the big jump you took!! Holy crap, you are one brave chick!! I hope it was everything you wanted and more! woo hoo!! I hope that your birthday was a good one and that you had lots of people with you to celebrate!!

In other news this weekend, I was hanging out over at my neighbor Seth's apartment on Sunday after church and other such Sunday activities, meeting new people and eating some food. talked about rock climbing with some people, having lots of fun. When out of no where Seth, Matt and a kid i have never met before come out with their guitars and start singing. After a couple of songs they decided to serenade me! ha ha ha it was a riot! Seth sang about how we met and the kid i didn't know sang about my purple hair and Matt sang about how cool I am! ha ha it was great!!! I do believe that was the first time a group of boys have sung to me!

Kid I don't know, Seth and Matt

Thanks boys!! You made my day!!! I guess that is all for today!!

Wonderful Dad

My dad is the best! he drove all the way up from salt lake to give me flowers and take me to lunch!! Thanks Dad!! I love you!!!!

Valentines Day

Affection should never be forced. period. This upcoming "holiday" puts too much stress on people who are in relationships. and upsets those who aren't. its another reason for hallmark and other stores to make people feel like they have to spend money on their loved ones or they aren't a good husband or boyfriend, or even a good friend. to stores, its just one big paycheck. they don't really care if people love each other, they just want the money. Valentines day, like so many other holidays, has become so much about the spending and the money and the "things" we get and give, that people forget the real reason we have such holidays. I'm not saying its bad to spend money on a loved one. i just think its more important to love them, than to spend money on them. people should know you love them cause you say it, or show it in small actions. it shouldn't be just one or two days a year. it should be every day that you show your loved ones that you love them. Every one should know that they are loved every day. Don't wait till Valentines day or their birthday to tell them, tell them now, show them now. leave a note, a message, a text. pick a flower, give a hug or smile. SAY I LOVE YOU. That's the most important one, tell them. all the time, don't let them forget that you love them!

I'm going to take my own advice and tell you all that i love you! cause i do!

I LOVE YOU ALL!!

until next time!...

Urban Dictionary about Celeste

1)Amazingly beautiful, one from heaven, angel-like. These girls typically make amazing girlfriends and any guy would be lucky to have a Celeste

2) an amazing chick, a best friend, a hot girl, a gift from god

3) of Latin origin meaning "heavenly", the most amazing girl on the face of the planet, gorgeous beyond belief, as smart if not smarter than any girl you will ever meet, loves life and lives it to the fullest.

Just some stuff I do

I have recently taken up rock climbing,
I'm addicted.

Devin Climbing

On Blay
(at least I think thats how you spell it)

Its a pretty hard work out!

Me and Devin

It snowed about 4 inches in two hours
Michelle, Seth and I played in it for awhile

New Years Eve
Me, Devin, Michelle and Alia

Michelle

Bottoms up!

Christmas 2009
Mom and I

Sister Chelsea and Me
Mandy was in New Zealand and was greatly missed

Dad, Chels, and Me

Roommates

Kyleigh Dear

that pretty much sums up the last few weeks!
until next time!

Songs that...

Remind me of summer (Boys of summer by Don Henley and Cruel Summer by Banana Ramma) should not be played in the middle of winter.

Recall

My car has been recalled. This upsets me seeing as I just made my third payment on it. So now I have to take Leon (my car) into a dealer to get it fixed. I find this annoying. Though in the long run I would much rather have to wait a couple hours for them to fix my car than be on the free way going 75 mph, needing to stop and being unable to cause my throttle is stuck in the "go" position.

That could end with disaster and quiet possibly, my death. I'm not okay with that.

i was told not to scream at people

my sister has informed me that typing everything in caps makes it seem like i am screaming at people. im sorry. i did not mean to raise my voice. i will no longer type with caps.