The Truth Is Often Stranger Than Fiction

Yea... I can't let it go, what are you going to do sue me?


Sometimes I think even the most educated people get the two mixed up. So we shall ask Mr.Webster what the true definitions are.

Ambition- 1 a : an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power b : desire to achieve a particular end

Motivation- 2 : a motivating force, stimulus, or influence : incentive, drive


So by me wanting to eventually be the head of Special Education, I have the desire to achieve a particular end as well as the desire for power. This classifies me as ambitious. If I wanted to do nothing with my life and just peddle along on a slighlty above minimum wage job with no dreams or aspirations, then I would be considered low to no ambition.

As for motivation, we all have our moments of great motivation and moments of no motivation. It even happens to the most ambitious of us. Such as I have the drive to become a special education teacher, but I am taking my time, getting the education I need and the experience I need before I take the leap. But after 5 and a half years of undergrad I may take off a year before grad school so I don't burn out.

So when deciding whether someone is ambitious or not, remember the difference between being ambitious and being motivated.

My lovely Boss gave me her teapot for my tea party. It makes the teapot party collection complete. Sunflowers! How me!

But in other news. I finished Deliverance Dane, and I won't lie, I totally skipped that last interlude in the book. At that point the interludes were pointless, well at least they were to me. Ok so she's a witch, she was tried, she is going to be hanged. What I really cared about was what Connie would do to help her love Sam by using the physick book, aka shadow book, aka almanac. And then when it all happened it was like Howe was in a rush from her publishers to get the book out to print. It was rushed, it lacked true suspense that should have been used. But still it was a good read. Nice mix of fiction and history. Yea you read that right, history! But it was my kind of history, Salem witch trials.

Now onto Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Now I know it's a children's book but I can already tell you that I don't like the way it is written. When I read a book and it sounds like I wrote it, yet a bit more obnoxious with the side-notes, I'm not a fan. But we shall see, my feelings may change. Plus I'm only reading it as research from my party!! Which is 2 weeks away! Hmm, maybe I should notify people other than my Mikey and my Kenny. I have so far discovered that I have to make "Drink Me" tags to put on bottles, and those will be items that I will look for at Ikea Wednesday. The bottle represents the liquid Alice drinks when she first gets to the bottom of the rabbit hole.

ps. It's been 3 days since my Kenny went on vacation and I'm doing ok...haha. It's all the reading! The next step will probably be cleaning...yay! I have a kitchen pantry and a child's room that needs to be organized!

So I have been reading Deliverance Dane for about a month now and I'm only half way through. It really makes me sad that I get less reading done in the summer than I do during the school year. And frankly it doesn't make much sense. I went to the beach yesterday with the intention of reading but only got to read a page or two. Which is ok because we did have fun. I'm babysitting my Alex today and hoping that I will get some off time to read. And it looks like the opportunity has arisen so I will take it. But I must say I love the way Howe intertwines History and fiction and throws in a little love story.

I want to have a Mad Hatter Tea Party for my birthday next month. Do you know how hard that is to plan?? Unless you happen to have a bunch of teapots and tea cups and paper lanterns laying around, it can get pretty expensive. But with a little help from Mikey I have been able to keep a pretty low budget. I bought 2 adorable tea pots at Marshall's the other day.

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I also was able to find some awesome decorations with Mikey. The colors are awesome and I can't wait for my Birthday. Now I just have to decide if I'm buying the paper lanterns that I LOVE or the ones at Party City....Hm.