My busy weekend

This weekend was actually one of the busiest in a while.  It wasn’t busy studying wise, there was just a lot to do.  There were events lined up back to back.  It started with Phi Delta Chi’s annual Luau on Thursday night.  I was hesitant to go because I didn’t know what to expect.  I thought Elevate was in Hollywood, so I really didn’t want to drive all the way over there and have to deal with mad traffic.  I also didn’t want to disappoint my littles so I decided to go with Amy, who happened to offer to drive Doris and I.  It only took 3 drinks to make me into an affectionate drunken dancer. 
  


Then Friday rolled around.  I had promised Phuong and Hadley that I would go to Rage with them in WEHO.  I was looking forward to the event but reluctant at the same time.  The last time I had been at Rage was for Hadley’s birthday back in early October.  I had been away for so long, I didn’t know what to expect either.  It was a good thing though that there were so many familiar faces.  Most of our peeps were there.  It was so cute that Paul came down from Norcal to surprise Henry.

 

On Saturday morning I had a health fair at an Elementary School in Monterey Park.  Before the health fair, there was a Runathon put on by a 2 of our USC Pharmacy organizations (5K Run/walk fundraiser).  After the Runathon, a lot of the participants strolled over to the Health fair and we were able to give them a lot of information about sunscreens and skin cancer.  I left early for my Rho Chi initiation banquet to honor our induction into the prestigious society.  The top 20% of the class get invited.  Your invitation is based on 1.5 semesters of classwork.  It was held at Roy’s in Pasadena.  I hear the place is actually really expensive.  I’m glad I was able to taste all of the amazing food for free complements of the organization.





On Sunday, I woke up at 5:30am for IV rotations at LAC+USC Hospital.  After working for 4 hours, I left at about 11am and I went straight to another health fair.  This one was in Alhambra at the YMCA center.  I stayed until 2 pm.  This one was a lot busier than yesterday.  The only problem I had with this healthfair was that it was outside; it was extremely windy and sunny.  How ironic that the skin cancer/sunscreen booth was located in direct sunlight. 

Utada and fobby pics!

             My friend got about 10 mins of footage of the Utada Cd listening yesterday.  We took a lot of awesome pics but I haven’t been able to get my hands on them yet.  So for now I will post some of the fobby pics that we took afterwards  

   

Hikki, I love you long time

                 I’m skipping part of my class today to go to the cd listening in Hollywood at Sephora.  We’re having a quiz today too but hey, my grades can suffer for Utada anyday.  I hope I get an autograph and picture.  I’m so excited.  Hikki has been my favorite artist of all time.  I just bought her cd digitally this morning.  I also preordered my cd on Amazon a few weeks ago but didn’t want to wait until after May 12th to listen to the cd for the first time.  Hopefully in my next post, I’ll have pictures of the Japanese and to be American superstar. 

Adventures in Nebraska

While I was in Nebraska, I spent an entire week relaxing.  My phone carrier Tmobile actually didn’t receive any signal in Omaha.  Normally, not receiving signal would be a bad thing, but since it was my break, it allowed me to retreat and further de-stress from normal life.  

Most of my time was spent with my nieces, Katie who is now 7 and Kalia who is just 2.5 months old.  I did a lot of shopping too.  On Wednesday, my sister took me to Lindley’s Clothing.  This was where I bought my first suit and she got me another one that day, this time a black suit with white pinstripes.  Then on Saturday we went shopping again, I got a few shirts from Buckle.  I love this store since there’s nothing like it back in CA.  I just hate that there are rarely any sales, and everything is so highly priced.  Here are the only photos I was able to capture of this week’s journey (with my camera phone).  The rest will remain with me in my memories. 

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Nebraska

Hey everyone!  I’m writing straight from Omaha, Nebraska.  I’ve been here since Saturday night and have been enjoying my stay so far.  My phone has absolutely no signal and I forgot to bring my charger but that works out perfectly; I can truly have a vacation with no worries at all.  I’m still connected as you can all see since I have internet over here. 

On Sunday, I went out to Zorinsky park where there’s a 5 mile perimeter lake and ran around it.  I’m a bit out of shape, haven’t had to run that much since my half marathon and so it took me over an hour to finish the trail.  Then afterwards, my brother in law, niece, and I went to Two Rivers for a bit of fishing.  I just sat down on the tarp and watched as my niece and brother did some fishing.  There were a lot of trout in the river.  What’s interesting is that they used corn as bait and it worked.  My niece caught her first trout within the first 5 minutes.  That was certainly excited.  Today, I went to try some Thai food with my sister.  It was horrible I must say.  The Tom Yum soup was so sugary I thought I was going to become pre-diabetic upon leaving.  We’re supposed to go shopping today after we pick up my niece from kindergarten.  Can’t wait!

Updates

Every time I write a new blog, I’m surprised to see how many days have gone by since my last post.  Time certainly does fly by when you’re keeping yourself busy.

Next week i have a Pharmaceutics midterms and Therapeutics final. 

Next Friday is Kristin’s bday; hopefully I’ll be able to go, but that will depend on whether or not I’m scheduled to work.  The day after I’ll be going to Nebraska for one whole week.

Running a bit behind

This weekend has been amazing.  All I did on Friday was just lounge around.  Then on Saturday, I listened to music and did a bit of spring cleaning.  I finally hung up my 10 pound picture frame.  Melissa bought me some special nails to hang it up.  It was a well deserved break from studying but the only problem is that I have a Management midterm on Monday.  I've been putting it off all weekend because it just doesn’t seem like a class that even deserves my attention.  I initiated my studies at 4pm today and went to dinner shortly after at around 5:30pm.  Then I went back to OC and didn’t start up again until about 10:30pm.  I have work tomorrow so it’s cramming time after that.  Well, we’ll see how this turns out.