Graveyard shift, Deep Fried Food, Awesome Music, & Reuniting with Friends

7/11/08

Friday night - The UCI group had to do a graveyard shift. 5:45 p.m.-7 a.m.

challenge for the shift ----STAY AWAKE

i was in the NICU taking care of triplets. this is basically what i had to do: give meds, feed every 3 hours, change diapers every 4 hours, make sure they kept breathing.

by the end of the shift i was a walking zombie. i felt like throwing up...right when i got home i plopped into bed and slept til i had to get up for the OC fair

7/12/08

Dielle was kind enough to invite melanie and me to watch ONE REPUBLIC with her and her boyfriend. Before we entered the arena, we bought FOOD!....we ordered chicken fingers, garlic fries, the FRIED vegetable platter, and FRIED AVOCADO!...man...it was DELICIOUS!...


First on stage was Phantom Planet (they sang the theme song from the show, the o.c...."california"). they were really good. then one republic performed...MAN!!!!! they were soooooo good!!!!!!!!! i recommend getting their album...their music is sooo chill


after the show....we bought FUNNEL CAKE!...you can't leave the OC fair without getting funnel cake...MMMmmmmm!

it was a great night to relax...yummy food, good music, and awesome friends...can't beat that!


7/14/08

the mission team FINALLY reunited...it's been a whole year since our mission trip to the philippines...it's awesome how we can always come back together and reminise about what GOD did in the summer of 2007...

we celebrated Ate Deb & Ate Knatz's birthday and our 1 year anniversary of going to the philippines...

i'm looking forward to 2009...i am TOTALLY going on another mission trip...

GOD IS AMAZING!!!!!!!

in 2007 before boarding the plane

reunited in 2008


the whole team!

Little Miracles

I just finished my labor and delivery rotation...it was seriously the best 6 weeks of nursing school i've been through...

i was able to be part of the beginning of 12 little babies' lives....it was such a blessing...to be able to be one of the 1st ppl to hold them....and hand off the baby to their anxious parents....and to be able to see the look of the parents as they gaze with astonishment into their little newborns eyes....i never got tired of it...

i was working at mission viejo hospital....the drive was far but oh so worth it...i've never been in a hospital that was faith based....the people working there are seriously uplifting and supportive...it was awesome!...to start conferences with devotions blew me away...it gave me a picture of where i'd like to work when i'm done with the program...and my instructor was amazing...she's actually married to a pastor...so she always gave us support when we needed it....GOD IS SO GOOD!...

(my 1st set of twins)

(in OR 1)

our last day together :(

Forget your troubles and just be HAPPY

ok...after 13 weeks of lame lectures...where can one go to forget about your troubles?

when watching what you eat doesn't exist....

Where you can drive without a license.....

where you can go on rides til you turn blue in the face.....



where poo...is in regards to winnie the "POOH" (sorry...nurses care about BMs)

and where being on your feet for 12+ hours doesn't really matter because it was fun times....


there's no place like
DISNEYLAND with awesome people!

what you should do after a med surg exam?

GO TO HAPPY HOUR!!!!!

if your school is 5 minutes away from downtown fullerton.....why not?

so...the few of us who didn't have clinicals the next day decided to "cheer up" after taking our 2nd med surg exam....

so we headed to some grill in downtown fullerton for happy hour...couldn't remember the name...but they had some pretty good "tiki shots"...haha! some kind of punch with a shot of 151...so of course we couldn't drink on an empty stomach...so we ordered 8 appetizers... :) i was very "happy" by the end of the meal





so after stuffing our faces with heart attack food...we decided it was time to raise our heart rates and do some cardio....

so....we walked to continental...and danced!

then....we walked to zing's....ran into poles along the way....

did some ninja kicks in the streets....

then we danced more....

it was a great way to end the night....good times w/ good friends....we should do more outings like that to remain sane in this nursing program :)

what did i get myself into?

i remember when i used to journal everyday on xanga....but after seeing this program and how easy it is to insert pictures here...i've decided to convert....and...possibly start blogging so i can remember what i've done in the year...

here's a link to my yester-years...
www.xanga.com/jenverscsulb