11:23

Where have you been? Why did you go? I wish you were still here. I
want to talk to you about random weird stuff. I could really do with
your help. Everythings gettings harder.
I don't seem to know who I am. Or what I want. Nothing makes me happy
anymore. Not sure what to do.
I wish you could come back.
I think I'm going properly crazy.
Is it normal to have many many voices arguing and shouting in your head?
I want to be able to sleep.

What's the point.

Your Baby Looks Like A Vampire and. You. Are. A. Fool.

I have no idea what I want to say.

I kind of just want to say something. Somehow. 

But, I have nothing good to say.

I could ramble on about my day, I suppose. 

But, thats not saying anything good. 

I don't think.

I could tell you about how excited I am that there is only seven days left of school.

But, what's the point? 

So what do people say when they say things? Good. Things. 

That's all been said before. 

I want to draw something. 

I can't.

I wish I could.

I really. Wish I could. 

Silence. 

I want to run in the rain.

But, it's stopped now. 

Shit.

What the hell am I on about? 

Maybe. Quite. Possibly.

I have somehow been drugged. 

Somehow.

Or maybe. 

I. Need. Sleep. 

we are the voices inside your head

I haven't done one of these for agggeeesssss. Because I am a lump of boredom. hmmm ummm we got a kitten not last weekend but the weekend before, she is called Wednesday (after the addams family coz she likes dark places) and she climbs up the brick walls to the roof. and ummmm I started my dress for the apex australia teen fashion awards. and maneged to do okay on most of my tests and I think i did ok on my critique but we don't have them back yet. and I really need to make some money because i am massively in debt. yer, like I said I am a lump of boredom

The real world would have to be the most boring thing known to man.

I just realized all the mistakes in that last post. Sorry, it's extremely hard writing with the ipod touch keyboard. 

hmmm, anyway. Got back in Aus Sunday then drove back Monday, been back at school for two days. It's not at all an enjoyable thought. In-fact it's thoughts like that that make that clear liquidy stuff come out the corner of your eye and run down your cheek, put a salty taste on your lips and slip off your chin, all before you can stop it. 

Thailand was amazing! We got stuck at a shopping centre, braved protestors with swords and guns, bribed the army, shopped madly at MBK the seven story shopping centre, had lots of starbucks, bought way too much stuff to fit in our cases, drove on a ferry, drove off a ferry, struggled to drive up steep steep curly wurly hills, swam lots, rode on elephants, went to amazing restaurants on the beach, bought jewelry on the beach, had the best food ever and soooo much more. 

Australia is shit. 

There are sheep on my bed. For real.

みかん
Obviously the sheep aren't real, and it doesn't take long to count
them. There is 21.
Ahaha I'm going to Thailand tommorow!!!!!!!! I had to get a new bigger
suitcase but there was only black ones so I've been painting it all
week. It's covered in drunk animals and rainbows and clouds and twloha
and in the middle it says Megan is mean, you know the matches song
that I'm not allowed to download coz it's in their song vault which
annoying man that gave me half his genes won't let me have D:
But anyway, in Thailand there's this thing happening whee the taxis
are blocking the roads so even if the road to get from the airport to
hotel Is okay there won't be any taxis cos they'll be busy blocking
roads and the military could get involved and if they do it will proly
go violent. So if that happens we'll have to go to korat and go to
slightly less awesome shops LOL
And my awesome cool aunty (the one who is actually from Thailand) gave
all of us kids 500 baht!!!!!!!!!! Sooo awesome!
Anywho, have an awesome next 2 weeks.
Sent from my iPod

I got a medal today. Our team ran the most laps. :D It's weird. 

I had the plastic baby this weekend. I was so happy when it died at four o clock. All it does is make noises at me and be embarrassing. It was Rhiannas birthday on Friday. We all love her. She is still convinced everyone hates her. It makes me sad. We went to the park at 1.30 am looking for drunk people to dance with. I am exhausted because the relay for life kept me awake til 2 am last night. I can't be bothered saying what the relay for life is. If you care you can google it. I'm going to Thailand on Sunday. I didn't let myself get excited coz I never thought it would happen. Or something would go wrong. But I'm thinking it might turn out well. I'm excited now. My friend hates me because she asked me if I cut and I cracked up laughing. I eventually lied. She kept asking me questions and telling me to be serious. She disgusts me anyway. My parents love her. I hardly even like her. She actually disgusts me so much that I can't sit next to her or look at her. I feel bad now. I need sleep. It's easter soon. I'll be up up up in the clouds. yay. yay. yay. I'm still happy from Rhiannas party and relay for life. I ran 8km in my 45 minute thing. I had two 45 minute things. I want choc milk. 

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream

I can't be bothered writing; it's about 35°c  and I'm so uncomfortably hot! 

Had to go back to school today :( I would much rather go back and do work experience again. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I just did filing and making posters and some stocktake. 

My science teacher was very grumpy at me today, because last week he told me to get some work from him before I left, but I didn't get it because I was trying to sort stuff out with the whole threats and stuff and my friend was hell upset. And today I went and asked for the assignment sheet and he said "You didn't come to see me last Wednesday! I got sheets especially for you!" so I said sorry and explained why I didn't come and asked if there was anymore worksheets I had to do because I was going away for another week and a half and he said very angrily "That's a long time to be away. Is it absolutely necessary?! Why are you going? Is it something I can know about or personal issues?" !!!!! It's not like I'm going to say "Oh sorry Sir! I'll just cancel my plane ticket and stay here for you. " And I wonder what he was thinking about when he asked if it was something he could know about or if it was personal, lol.  

And my friend is being horribly annoying. We coloured our hair for the worlds greatest shave on Saturday and I had told everyone that I'd organize it for on Saturday and email them everything. So I emailed her fifty times as well as texting her and she didn't reply. So today at school I asked her why she didn't reply and she said she couldn't be bothered checking her emails and didn't want to come anyway! So now she isn't going to colour her hair because it's "stupid" and she hasn't even tried to get any sponsors. And all day she just kept saying stupid things. Normally she's not all that understanding or nice, but today she was even worse. Her normal line is "no one has a reason to be depressed; they should just get over them selves!" but today my friend was having a really bad day and she just kept telling her to shut up and stop being so self centered when she wasn't even talking. And at lunch her and Reyne were obsessing over Twilight and then Paramore. It was horrible! It made me sad and I was talking to my friend about how awesome Paramore are but now they've gone hell mainstream and silly girls are like "OMG have you heard this new band called Paramore?" and She came over and was like "Stop being ridiculous, just because we know every Paramore song and you don't" hahahahahahahahaha she thinks they have 3 songs!!!!!! And so me and my friend kept talking and she was talking about all serious stuff and then she came over again and was like "You two are drama queens, just get over it. You don't even know what you're talking about!" So I told her to fuck off and she huffed off lol. And I have vowed to hate her for the next 3 weeks because she is always being horrible and thinks we depend on her. Her and her stupid black and white world. 

Anyway, I can't be bothered being all cut up and annoyed about it now, I'm too excited. I get to spend 1 and a half weeks with my grandparents that I haven't seen for 2 years! yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayaayayayayayayayayyayayayayayay 

Borrowed Time

Wow. Today was messed up. I can't even try and understand what happened with out thinking about how hard it is to keep breathing. But nothing comes easily. I wish it was that hard for things to go, but it seams so easy for everything to disappear. I take another breathe, it's the only thing I know how to do.   

All Alone! wether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.

Hello.

I am back in this hole of a town. I wish I was not. 

This town stays the same. And if someone is to change, the whole town changes too. Like sheep, but not nearly as awesome. But in that city, there is different people. But they don't seem so different, because everyone is different from each other. make sense? 

Any who. I am back. For about a week and a half. Then I am sitting for eight hours to arrive at that city again, but, then I am catching a plane and spending another 3 or so hours sitting (in much more comfort) to arrive in Sydney! 

Yes, anyway. I had a pretty good weekend. Went to my cousins wedding. Felt pretty spesho because we were the only kids out of about 30 of my cousins to be invited :) 

'Twas nice. I know, weddings are suppose to be more than 'nice' but, it's all so unoriginal. And people kept coming up to my sister and talking about how they remembered her and my 3 cousins, but no one talked to me :(  lol. 

Oh and I felt sooooooo ridiculous! Me, wearing a dress, high heels and, make up. haha Mother and sister forced me to wear make up, so I went and got some blue eye liner, because I thought it may as well be interesting. lol But, some lady did come up to me and tell me my dress was her favorite of the night. awwwwww. lol

The food was weird. The only thing on the vego menu was some weird spiced root vegetables and caramelized onion and goats cheese tart :( it was yuckkkkkkkkkkkk lol but Liam gave me some of his roast potato. Life saver. And he had to eat raw salmon for entrée lol

I have to do work experience this week :( And because I couldn't find anywhere else I have to do it and my parents business :( which means a week of mum getting annoyed at me me 24/7. I never thought i'd say this, but I wanna go to school! lol I get an hour for lunch though. yay? 

I got internet on my iPod touch now. But it will only let me write titles of blog entries. not the actual entry bit :( lol I should really be doing my S and E assignment, it has to be in tomorrow. And I haven't even done 1/4 of it. It's about choosing pathways for uni and how we are going to be able to do what we want to do when we are older, but I can't do it. I have no idea what I want to do when I'm older! I just want to travel in a double decker bus with endless supplies of choc milk. But when I handed that into the teacher he got angry and told me to be serious because it is a very important issue. I don't care. I'll be a homeless bum if I want to!

going to Perth this arvo

bye 

Faith oh faith, is a way to believe lies we need

YAY FOR THE WEEKEND!!!!!!

What ever Foundation Day is, I love it! 

I think it might be when West Australia was founded. I remember something like that in primary school. When we used to have pioneer day and dress up in old 19th century clothes and play marbles. We also thought it could have been one of the queens many birthdays. Either one, it means we have monday away from school.

I am glad of that. Monday is a torturous day. 

It wasn't as bad this week because we missed out on a double health for a 'Healthy relationships' workshop. I don't think anyone actually took in what the lady was saying about not insulting people and communicating. They all came out of the gym swearing and calling each other sluts. And some crazy person called me a skanky bitch with weird socks hahahaha.

And, speaking of crazy people... My friend had to get a restraining order on someone. 

The other day in health, this girly was sitting at our table, and everything we said she'd just insult us. She was like "are you guys, like, friends? do you sit together at lunch?" and we said "yeah. that's quite a normal thing to do. why?" and she just cracked up laughing and turned to her friend and started talking about how silly and girly we were. Then she started going on about all the guys she'd slept with and the drugs she'd taken. And she would not stop insulting us about nonsense things. So my friend said all big stand-up-to-the-bully-like "I'm sick of you insulting my friends. you don't even make sense! We are friends, we do not do drugs or sleep around. You are being stupid!" and the girl got soooooo mad and went off her head and said to my friend "what the fuck did you just call me!!??" and my friend was looking hell worried so then my other friend just randomly goes "yeah she called you stupid and a slut." hahahahahahaha but, yeah, maybe not a good idea. So little miss gangsta threatened all of us and said that when the lesson finished we were to go outside and call her a slut to her face. which to me makes no sense, she didn't like it the first time, why did she want us all to tell her again? but luckily the teacher wanted to talk to her about something and kept her in. So we escaped. But we heard at lunch that she was "looking for us" lol so we kind of laid low for a while. But today we went to student services and Mr student services said that she was a bitch and deserved to be called a slut hahaha and if she went with in ten meters of us she'd have time-out for, like, ever! but her friends kept calling us sluts and giving us the finger hahahahahahahahahahaha 

But, my friends are all mucked up. 

Ready to give up on everyone

If it means they have to give up any little insignificant thing of theirs

It's lent now, maybe that's why they're giving up

I think you're supposed to give up something more like chocolate not love

or maybe they never did love

no, I don't think they did

I have covered my arms in the word love. It makes me smile.

And maybe if you feel in a generous mood, you could head over to www.worldsgreatestshave.com and sponsor my team. It is called Red Rum lol I am the team captain! I have just received all the fundraising stuff. I now have balloons, badges, posters and a huge banner thing :D 50c maybe? lol 

I feel I have written enough, goodnight! 

I know your best was still your worst

I seem to be forgotten, by everyone. 

But, they remember me sometimes, only to blame me and forget me, again.

Everyone has forgotten each other. 

They're too busy trying to win. 

I'm not sure why everything is a competition, to know more, to have more, to talk more. There's competitions about whose family is bigger, funner, louder. Whose problem is the biggest, whose lunch is the worst. 

They've forgotten everything. 

They've forgotten that words can hurt people. 

They have no idea that what they are saying is leaving people lonely.

You can't even talk to them anymore.

If someone was to say "I'm killing myself this afternoon" they would spend the next 30 minutes talking about their own (not at all) horrible life.

They say nothing of any importance and listen to no one. 

They insult everyone else, but will not allow themselves to feel that same pain. 

She talks endlessly about how she is so "excellent at listening"  "great at understanding people" and "good at helping" not realizing the tears running down her friends face. 

They are not hers; they are not important.

I'm tired.

this week has been crap. 

life is crap.

fuck it. 

whats the point?

everyone's given up

Black and Red

I have started this sentence so many times.

I don't know what to write. 

What can I say?

people light fires.

houses burn.

people die.

Australia is used to bush fires. They come every year and leave behind a mess of ashes. But this, this was mass murder. It's just the same as someone running around shooting people with a gun. 181 people were burned alive. No one wanted to leave their house and come back to a pile of ashes. As people tried to escape the fires, they were faced with car crashes, fallen trees and many became surrounded by the fires. 

The fires started on Saturday and on Monday there were still 50 of them burning. 

More than 700 houses were burnt down. All the things people thought were valuable have turned into ashes. What value are they now? But you hear peoples stories and they don't talk about how much they miss their china vase or plasma screen. They talk about how much they miss the people they love, the people that died. They talk about how happy they are to be alive and how much they appreciate everyones help. Because everything else doesn't matter, this is too big to worry about those small things. 

The red cross bush fire appeal has raised $28 million to support the people effected by the fires. The whole country is helping. I've just spent the afternoon with a few other people painting shipping containers to send supplies to Victoria and the containers will be used as shelter for just a few of the 1000s of people that have become homeless. We live on the other side of Australia and the whole town has come together to give money and supplies to the people of Victoria. Even people on the other side of the world are ready to help. How amazing is that?

You should definitely read the blog about it on TWLOHAs page. I read it over and over again. All the people offering support and showing they care. 

This is a huge disaster.

But there's huge amounts of support.

Taylor Swift is not a nice person.

salut! hmm I havent done french for sooooo long but I still remember stuff like something about an animal in a maison. maybe I don't remember that then but it's like 'a to an animale a la maison', but obviously spelt properly. It in english is 'do you have any pets? '

I have stuff to blabber on about, but no words or sentances to create. Actually, now I cant remember what I was gonna say. sacrebler, or how ever you say it.

I have survived the first week of school :) only 39 more to go. But not really 39 coz I'm going to be away sometimes. In about 4 weeks I'm going to Perth for my cousins wedding. A few weeks after that I'm going to Sydney and then to a place called tweedheads in new south whales to stay with my grandparents on dads side. Then there's like 2 weeks after that til the end of term. Then we are going to Thailand for the holidays :D well mum says its definite, but I'm not sure, with the economic crisis and everything. Then I'm not sure about the rest of the year.

But in the October holidays I'm hopefully going to Canberra with my Society and Environment class :D Coz I'm in the top class. And the head of S&E organized a trip for canberra that people from the two top classes can go on if they want :D coz the government will pay for half of it if you go to the government house and all that 'educational' stuff. So I think me and my friend are both going to go if we can get a job and save enough money. And, and, and... I'll get to see my very awesome aunty who lives in Canberra :D suddenly school is slightly less horrible and torturing, slightly.

And somewhere inbetween all that I'm going on photography camp. which is a week in Perth and not at school. Using hell good cameras to take hell good photos in a place that isn't here :D with two of my friends. what more could you ask for??

And I have to sort everything out for the worlds greatest shave because my group are going to do the colouring hair part of it. and raise money for leukaemia foundation. And this year at school we have to do 20 hours of community service, so that will count for that. And so does the 40 hour famine. And I'm doing the relay for life, which is this 24 hour thing where you have teams and you take turns to run laps for 24 hours and thers like sooooooo much entertainment and stuff! and you raise money for cancer stuff. It's gonna be heaps cool!

I just found out all the bands that are going to be at soundwave this year. There's a whole heap of death metal ones that I don't like too much but there's also Alkaline trio, the red jumpsuit apparatus, forever the sickest kids, everytime I die, funeral for a friend, less than jake, new found glory, from first to last, hello goodbye, jacks mannequin, say anything, saves the day, minus the bear, I am the avalanche, bayside, emery, the audition, inner party system and velencia!!!!! and I really want to go, but it's on March 2 and we're going March 6, and I'm not allowed that much off school.And tickets are $130 :( But I sooooooo want to see Jacks Mannequin, forever the sickest kids and hello goodbye!!!!! maybe if i miraculously find a job before then and convince mum to let me go. Probably not.

ummm... boo! ???

OHHH I'm so bored. You know the horrible bored exhausted feeling that comes and you don't know why it came or how to get rid of it. Because honestly, today shouldn't have made me feel that bad. I was alone in science, but I'm used to that. But being alone in science is worse than being alone in other subjects. Because we have to sit in groups and do everything in groups so I have to go with not nice people and pretend like I dont care. Maths wasn't so bad because I had Michelle. But the teacher really should go teach at a primary school. She called us kids 10 billion times and kept saying things like "I looked at your little faces and it didn't look like you understood" and she kept talking in third person like "mrs hoeys rules say this" and "mrs hoey wants you to do this".
Ummm, childcare, was okay. I had mel and rhianna. But the rest of the class is just those horrible Mean Girl kinda people. They're only doing it because they want the fake baby. But I kind of expected that because its one of those classes that the annoying people choose because they think they wont have to do work. Thats the same for photography and art. I havent had photography, art or fashion yet. I really want to do fashion. It's like making your own clothes and redesigning old clothes to make them new again.
Society and Environment is booooring lol were doing the whole economic crisis. The teacher just drew a big squiggly line with the words boom and bust written everywhere and was like "this is the economy" and we are forced to sit down the front so he keeps hearing our conversations and giving us random looks because we talk a lot about weird random things.
And in English we are readin Frankenstein. It is quite confusing so you have to read some bits like 3 times to understand it. But so far its good.
I have a million homeworks to do. But I had to look after my silly cousin until 5:30. As soon as she got on the bus she was like "hi. gran said I could go to your house. I'm going to make another sims family" Its annoying. she is obsessed with sims and never ever stops talking about it.
Then when she left I had to make dinner. then eat it, then clean it up. Then listen to mums many lectures.
I suppose if I was smart I'd be doing it now, but I'm not. And its just too horrible to think about.

Oh and we were going to all wear stripy socks or colourful tights today to annoy the principal. because yesterday she told katelin she wasnt supposed to wear long rainbow socks. And we asked every teacher we could find and they all said there was no rules about it. But anyways, there was only me and mel wearing awesome leg wear because the others had got bored of the idea or something. We got many funny looks and comments. Made us laugh. specially when the principal saw us :D

OK, I'm going to pretend to be like a smart person and do boring linear equations that I have done 28million times over the past 2 years, stuff about boring money, worksheets about microbes and diseases and write chapter summarys for frankenstein. Fun.

oh and I need some more books I can read for english. Like interesting ones that could possibly disguise me as smart. I want to read the orphaned everythings, I think thats what its called. By, ummm, mental blank... that awesome dude thats in that awesome band that I'm ashamed to say, I cant remember. Oh and I'm going to order a copy of trading shadows for sunshine by eric victorino when its says its in stock on amazon.
So yeah I need more books. Any ideas???

Never be normal.
<3

fIrst day back at school. i really don't want to go back. it feels like i've never even been on HolidAys. that feeling of haVing all your ENergy Taken forever. that is how I feel now. we aren't allowed to listen to music at all during sChool. now we are not even allowed to wear long stripy socks. bUt That wont stop us FrOm weaRing coloured stockings And leg warMers. people are hOrrible. teachers caN be even more horrible Than students. lonelyness is tHe worst. big important life changing decisions are horrible. the global economic crisis is horriBle. and even worse to learn about. science is horrible and absolUTely no Interest of mine. reaDing frankensteIn is gooD. having a good english Teacher is even better. having awesOme exclamation mark and question mark earrings is pretty gooD. choc milk is wonderful! thAt is all i've had to eat/drink todaY except for rabbit food salad (carrot and lettuce).

Be Awesome
<3

Her Valentine

My project. I'm going to send cards to people and instead of saying 'be my valentine' and all that kind of stuff, it's going to say 'you are loved'. To remind people that even if they dont have a 'lover', theyre still loved. I have a list of people that I need to make cards for and find addresses for. Luckily, this town isn't very big so it shouldn't be too hard if I look in the phone book. My sister is going to help me find addresses for people, she said I was doing a good thing, but I still had to bribe her. Mum said it was a horrible thing sending fake valentines to people. She has some trouble understanding the meaning of love.
I burnt my hand making dinner last night and all she could say was "sorry, I don't have time to care right now, I'm too busy." atleast I got a sorry.

I heard a conversation between mum and father the other day. They were talking about a guy that works for them.
father said "I dont know what were gonna do about Andrew"
"he doesn't seem too well" replied oh so wise mother
"the other day he said something about starting to feel depressed"
"he did act a bit like that"
" I think we'll have to get something in writing saying that we acknowledged the issue"
My parents are lovely people. When the best person that has ever worked for them is becoming depressed, all they care about is saving themselves.
Because if you say "Andrew, I'm acknowledging the fact that youre depressed" It's all just gonna fix itself.

Any way. Onto Australia Day. I still have the Australian flag that was violently tattooed onto my arm by father. It wasn't airbrushed or anything lol. We had pancakes for breakfast like we always do on Woody, well fathers pancakes which are yummy coz theyre more like crepes. But this time , the people we were with brought the shaker pancake mix, coz they always have to be better than us. It was disgusting! But they were all like "I like this better than the other stuff" and "we should bring this next time" !!! But seriously everything anyone does they have to do it their better way.

Anyway I spent most of the day in the water or jumping off the pontoon, into the water. It got to 45 degrees Celsius, which I think is about 120 F. But the water was so choppy and the swell was huge. So you got a bit seasick if you stayed in the water too long.

But then there was a big pack of dolphins :D

I got some good photos and ate lots of chocolate, so all is good.

<3

Sorry, have no time.

I'm off to Woody Island tomorrow with shitty boring people. Originally we were all going together tomorrow but the other guys decided to go today without telling us and rang when we got back from town asking us to bring all shit for them. A lot has happened since like Wednesday but I haven't enough time and the computer keeps turning off on me, again. 

Anyways, we have to be at the jetty before seven coz thats when the boat leaves, so I'm gonna have to get up at like 6! so I should probably go to bed.

Coming back Tuesday arvo. 

Have a good weekend and pretend to celebrate Australia day, lol.

p.s I found out that we only have enough lamingtons to have one each :( and I've run out of choc milk and books to read :( and my AP magazing isn't here still :(

lamingtons!!!!!

this is from wikipedia :)

coz i just looooooooove lamingtons

I remember in primary school we had the best lamington drives. we got huge boxes of them to sell, but mostly we ate them :)

A cream filled lamington

Two traditional lamingtons

Lamingtons are a sponge cake (or, more traditionally, butter cake) in the shape of a cube, coated in a layer of traditionally chocolate icing then desiccated coconut. They are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream and/or strawberry jam between, and are commonly found inAustraliasian outlets such as coffee lounges, lunch bars, bakeries, and supermarkets. The strawberry variety is more common in New Zealand, while a lemon variety has been encountered in Australia. ^[1]

The chocolate coating is a thin mixture, into which cubes of sponge cake (one cookbook states 4 cm per side) are dipped, and the chocolate is absorbed into the outermost layers of the sponge where it sets. (Similarly, the strawberry jam or chocolate icing is absorbed into the sponge.) The cubes are then covered with coconut and left to set.

They have traditionally been popular as fund raisers for Australian youth groups such as Scouts, Guides and churches to the extent that such fund raisers are called "Lamington drives."

The cake is supplied by commercial bakeries in large slabs and cut into about 40mm cubes. Teams of volunteers work together, dipping the cake into the chocolate icing and rolling it in the coconut. Generally they are packaged up into one dozen lots for distribution within communities which have been solicited for orders ahead of time.

In the early twenty first century these type of community bonding events are becoming obstructed by food handling regulations.^{[citation needed]} Commercially produced versions are also sold. In Australia, they are seen as a typical Australia Day food.

Friday 21 July 2006 was designated as National Lamington Day in Australia.

In September 2006, the National Trust of Queensland named the Lamington one of Queensland'sfavourite icons.

[edit]Etymology

Lamingtons are most likely named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901. However, the precise reasoning behind this is not known, and stories vary. According to one account, the dessert resembled the homburg hats favoured by Lord Lamington. Another tells of a cook of lord lamington accidentally dropped a block of sponge cake into a dish of chocolate. Later on It was discovered to be very nice with desiccated coconut sprinkled over the top. ^[2]

A 1981 report in the Brisbane Courier Mail states the following: A colleague ... swears this is really how the lamington came about. At one stage when Baron Lamington was Queensland Governor, there was a large amount of stale cake in the Government House kitchen. In an attempt to make it palatable, the cake was dipped in chocolate and then tossed in desiccated coconut. The parliamentarians liked this 'gateau' and ordered their cooks to obtain the recipe from the Government House cook.

Ironically, Lord Lamington was known to have hated the dessert that had been named in his honour, once referring to them as "those bloody poofy woolly biscuits".^[2]

Most of these reports amount to hearsay, and some border on the absurd. The most probable version of events surrounds the visit of Lord Lamington and his entourage to Toowoomba's Harlaxton House. An industrious cook, lacking some ingredients, came up with the "lamington". Tea and lamingtons are part of the festivities that follow Australian Citizenship ceremonies.

and a recipe!!!

The easy way

Ingredients

• 1 slab sponge cake (one day old)
• 4 cups icing sugar
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 - 3 cups desiccated coconut

To make the icing

• Cool the cake for at least half an hour in the Fridge or Freezer, then cut into squares or fingers
• Combine the Sugar and Cocoa in a large bowl
• Heat the milk and butter in a saucepan until the butter is melted.
• Add to the sugar/cocoa mixture and mix to a fluid yet not runny consistency

To put it all together

• Make a production line of Sponge Fingers, Chocolate Icing mixture in a bowl, coconut in a shallow container or plate, and a cooling rack with paper underneath.
• Using a fork dip the sponge fingers into the icing, roll it in the coconut covering it well, and then place on to the rack to dry.
• Once they have dried, place in an airtight container and leave to "mature" for at least a few hours, preferably overnight, before eating.

To make the sponge cake if you really want to

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups self rising flour
• 1/2 cup milk

Method

• Grease and Line a Lamington Tin (11 x 8 x 1.5 inches)
• Cream the Butter, Castor Sugar and Vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs one at a time beating together as you go.
• Fold in the Flour and Milk, alternating as you go.
• Pour the batter into the prepared tin, spread evenly, and bake in a Moderate Oven (375f/190c) for 30-40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• Allow to stand for a few minutes before turning out on to a cooling rack.
• Leave to cool then store in the Fridge overnight.

and that is how you make the best little cakes in the world!!!!!!!

if you were a butterfly, where would you flutter to?

ffffssssshhhhsssssffffff (that is the noise that a weird tired annoyed overheated person makes when she decides to start writing a blog entry) Why hello there people, rather, extremely awesome person of the world! hows it hanging? hmm that sounds slightly odd. but anywho... I learned something amazing today. I can slightly walk in high heels lol. Because you see, mother bought me a dress to wear to my cousins wedding. It's this awesome one that isn't what I'd normally wear. probz coz I don't wear proper dresses. like I wear silly ones that make me smile, but not nice proper ones. And I also got some shoes to wear with it. They are awesome. they're heaps 1920-ish and kinda high heeled. And I, megan something something, could slightly walk in them! 

I think I have some sort of fake pregnancy thing going on. Because obviously I can't possibly be  pregnant (unless I'm gonna have another Jesus) But like every morning I get sooooooooo sick!!! like blah... sick, I haven't been like that sick for ages. But I'm fine the rest of the day. And everything heaps smells bad. :( oh joy! 

hmm diddley-oh! I got the bible according to Spike Milligan in Perth. This entry seems slightly religious, but NO. Oh, it is hilarious!

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2. and darkness was upon the face of the deep; this was due to a malfunction at Lots Road Power station.

3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

4. And God saw the light and it was good; He saw the quarterly bill and that was not good.

5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night, and so passed His GCSE."

umm-diddley-umm-dumm... arrgghhh I'm sooo bored that I'm resorting to stupid-non-words to provide some sort of weird entertainment. Oooo Oooo Oooo... we're going to Woody Island for Australia Day long weekend :0 and be very Aussie by swimming all day everyday and having a BBQ every night and eatting lamingtons. Mac dictionary doesn't thinnk lamingtons a word!!!!! But It So Is. You know what a lamington is right? the awesomest thing ever!!!!! when Mr. Lamington I think it was accidentally threw his piece of sponge cake and it bounced from the choc sauce into coconut. that was based on a true story anyway. something happened and this high-posh dude dropped his sponge cake in chocolate sauce and some how it also got covered in coconut and the dude realized that it tasted legandary... and the LAMINGTON was born!!!!!!! the best thing is an icecream lamington sandwich. can you guess what that is?? lol anywho... my sisters going to celebrate happy croatia day instead coz she's wants to be anti-everything that anyone does. my english teachers son was called keratia pronounced pretty much like croatia lol and I'm soo bored I am now filling you with use less weird things I remember. One more thing that is a certain fact... YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!! you know that that compliment could only be meant for you!! 

biyassssss xoxo

"the lord is well pleased with you."

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I want to write, I have that feeling, I don't know. But I type words, then I realize, that's not what I want to write. I really do not know. Things, I think, aren't so bad. But why do I feel like everything is getting worse. My best friend since year 2, who I haven't spoken to for at least 6 months, texted me on tuesday. She apologized to me for not talking to me as much. OK, she wasn't ignoring me, just not talking to me. We both had different friends, and at the time different ideas. I had emailed her a few times, she replied with "I can't be bothered to read it, so thanks for sending it. Catch up with you soon" So I gave up then. But then she texted me. I can't describe how happy I was. I'd missed her so much. But she's not coming to my school this year. She's going to bored at a school 6 hours away. And I was so excited just to hear from her, But my friends now don't like her. I don't know why. So I was trying to tell them and they all had disgusted looks on their faces, like why do you want to be friends with her still? And I do really want to be friends with her. We use to have sleepovers like every second weekend. And we'd stay up all night, just talking. Sometimes about important stuff but mostly about TV shows and guys and all that stuff. But with my other friends, they don't talk, the prove points or have better stories than everyone else. It's just always a competition, to be better, smarter, just always trying to win. Even though my old friend ditched me for a while because she was trying to be cool or something, I don't know, she's still my best friend. We've done pretty much everything together. We use to get told off in year 2 because we'd always be together. I remember once the teacher got angry at us coz we were holding hands too much. No we are not lovers. Best friends.

okay sorry for babbling on.

There's only 2 weeks left until I have to do year 10. I really am actually quite scared.

Mind disappearing disease

I'm slightly bored, like always. But it's that bored when everything you think of becomes so insanely boring that you just sit and wait for something to happen. I'm pretty sure that the computer is going to turn off on me soon, so...

I'm going to perth tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

there's more I want to say, but, I just don't feel like it really. Stupid! Stupid! horrible boredom!

p.s I need new words, I have no good ones.

"when i die, i want to be empty-handed.  not because i had nothing, but because i had everything, and i gave it all away." 

I couldn't think of anything that sounded any good at all

but you get that when you haven't slept for 26 hours. Had a party last night for new years. I can't be bothered writing, but I promised myself I would do writing or drawing or something like that every day for the rest of the holidays (1 month) So basically we had way too much coke. blew up 40 balloons, but ended up with only about 10 coz we let them go outside. Covered the back lawn with party poppers and glow sticks. Covered ourselves in the glowing stuff that is inside of the glow sticks, they kept breaking on us. Covered the road in front of our house with party poppers. We had to celebrate new years twice, of course, because of stupid daylight savings, and also because we forgot about the real one and didn't realize it was 2009 until 15 minutes after 12. We went to bed at 2:30 after my parents came home. Two people went to sleep, but the rest of us kind of forgot. After a long time of trying to wake the others up, we gave in and went to the beach without them. We wanted to see the sunrise, but it had already come up when we went at 5:30 so we went down there anyway. So yeah that's pretty much it. 

2009. fuck. I want time to stop so badly. I don't want anything to happen. I don't ever want to have to go back to school. 

I want to start again, but I cant, it's all going to be the same, no matter how hard I try. Everything around me is the same, everyone still thinks the same, in black and white. It's hard to tell the truth when everyone is trying to prove you wrong. But maybe I'll just have to try harder. 

My best friend is in Perth. I miss her so much. She's not coming back until the 13th and I want to talk to her so bad. 

Umm, new years resolutions. I haven't even done that yet, but I suppose, tell the truth, don't judge and, of course, eat less.

Looking back at 2008, I did nothing. I'm going to do more this year.

Happy New Year.