Well I've done what I can. I've been nothing but nice, I've been fair and rational and reasonable. I had to do something and I did it today. We'll see what happens in the next week or so...she knows I am right, she knows why, and she knows what will happen next. I hope I did what was right, I think I did. I've done nothing but my best all year, I have worked hard, and tried hard at everything. I've done my best and I feel absolutley no shame in any of this. There is only one month left of school...it will either go very quickly or very slowly...I'm hoping quickly. I have some things to look forward to...some sweet concerts, an amazing summer on it's way, and a fabulous friend to live with in september. Right now, for the first time in a long time, I feel very content and satisfied. I can look to the not so distant future and know it's going to be good, and I can look back on my year knowing that even though it was hard...ridiculosly hard at times...I did my best and I worked my hardest. I might treat myself to some chocolate tonight, who knows.

to keep those of you entertained who will never read a blog unless it has a photo...here you go. I see now the top orchids are kinda lopsided...but overall I was happy with this. Liz and I created this as an option for some foundation at Kwantlen to pick for their gala coming up, we sent 3 choices and they liked ours. we are very happy about that. PS the colors in the photo don't do justice to what it looks when it's actually in front of you.

your body is a wonderland...

good friends

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 Class today was about motivation. How do we motivate people who work for us to do a good job? we had a long discussion about what motivates us when we are working. We had along list including things like money, respect, acknowledgement, praise, respect, promotion, self satisfaction, bonuses, etc etc. We looked at atheory by a guy named Maslow, his theory includes a pyramid. he believed that everybody is motivated by certain thigns, ina  certian order. starting at the bottom abd working it's way up, people will be motivated by a certain aspect of the pyramid once the aspect below it has been satisfied. I dont' agree with him personally. ok, well I agree to a certain point, but not full heartedly. here is his pyramid:

so the thing that we noticed in our class was that all of the landscaping students were motivated by money while the florists tended to be motivated by actually liking the work, then we found that while the landscapers tended to agree that they were motivated the way this pyramid suggests, the florists thought they were motivated first by physical need, but then skipped everything else and went straight to self actualisation. Self actualiztion is where you get to be independed and creative, and for the most part we didn't really tend to care as much about the other three inbetween. the pyramid we looked at  desribed safety as having job security, Love was called "social needs" and was described as basically getting social interaction,  and esteeem and self actualization were pretty much the same. what do you guys think? how are you motivated? do you think this pyramid works? 

The other day a bunch of us went out for lunch after church. The people at my end of the table helped me brian storm some more ideas for a Business name for myself. here are my favorite suggestions so far. please feel free to either add to them, make new suggestions, or tell me which one you like best or wich one you think most people would like best.

In Bloom

Arranged

Petal Perfection

Passionate Petals

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