Thing's I've already done in 2011 (through the coercion of Lucy I appear!)

-Ran around before dawn and watched the sunrise on New Years Day

-Gotten accepted into my arts course at Monash University

-Seen the Disney Exhibition at ACMI

-Watched a Hitchcock movie for the first time (Rope)

-Found the magic position

-Partied

-Cried

-Read books (Sonya Hartnett, Neil Gaiman, others)

-Continued knitting club with my friends

-Stayed home for days

-Learnt more than ever about feminism

-Started 'The Feminist Network'

-Learnt how to crochet and make an octopus

-Lost one crochet hook, gained two

-Sat around naked patting a cat

-Drank Lucky

-Marched for gay pride in my underwear

-Gotten more followers on tumblr

-Thought about dying my hair 3 different colours

-Procrastinated

-Tried to organise

-Forgot to dream

-Jumped off a pier (not peer, as Lucy pointed out, for that is a different thing) for the first time with the lovely Lucy

Hopefully there's even more to come. Likewise I hope 2011 is turning out to be a good year for all of you.

xx

s-a

The month of a garnet birthstone

And so has passed the first 31 days of a new decade. Personally, I rather enjoyed it. Here is a list (Yay! Lists!) of a few things that I've done during the past month:

~ Snunk out of the house in the middle of the night in my PJs to run around on an oval, play in a fenced-off playground and watch the sun rise

~ Went to Scienceworks and the Planetarium (and loved it)

~ Got accepted into Science at Melbourne University

~ Got my Learner's Permit (finally)

~ Was given house keys (FINALLY!)

~ Saw the performance of someone from the internet with whom I am rather taken

~ Jumped off the pier at the beach for the first time

~ Killed my eyes spending a whole day going every post of Sally's tumblr

~ Endured sunburn

~ Endured windburn

~ Got a job

~ Lost my job

~ Learned to crochet an octopus

~ Forgot how to crochet an octopus

~ Read the following books for the first time:

- Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn Moriarty

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (the first book, not the entire series)

- Before I Die, Jenny Downham

- Breathe: A Ghost Story, Cliff McNish

- Of A Boy, Sonya Hartnett

~ Watched the following movies for the first time:

- The Maltese Falcon [1941]

- Vertigo [1958]

- 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]

- Black Swan [2010]

- North By Northwest [1959]

- The General [1926]

Hope you have all been successful in attempts to escape/bask in the extreme weather.

Lucy

{That delightful drawing at the top of this post comes from here. I strongly recommend visiting her Deviantart page. She is quite brilliant}

Greetings Earthlings

It would seem that I am yet to appear by name in this wonderful world of DDMM. My name is Lucy, maybe possibly also known as Dancing Irish Penguin or DIP, but please don't put your pita bread and carrot sticks in me. I wrote this entire post out in my head last night before I went to bed, but ask any one of my friends or family and you'll discover that I'm really not very good at remembering things. I make lots and lots of lists to try and help with this. I like lists and organisation A LOT. I also like to eat my toast in 9 bites; no more, no less.

The fact that Ding Diddy Meow Meow is kinda sorta taking some sort of shape makes me rather extremely happy, but the Summer holidays always make me happy and excitable. In my mind, the New Year begins when the Summer begins. This year it has been particularly significant and inspirational as high school is now complete! *Achievement Unlocked: YOU NEVER HAVE TO DO VCE AGAIN!* These Summer holidays have felt like the dawning of a new era, but not just because of the prospect of university (truth be told, I'm not really eagerly anticipating 1st round uni offers. I'm quite happy in my state of no direction). These holidays I decided to stop sitting around on my arse and actually start LIVING. This may have been the best decision I've ever made (which is quite nice seeing as 'Be More Decisive' was one of my New Year's Resolutions). So far I've dyed my hair red, dressed up like Sally from Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (which was actually directed by Henry Selick who is brilliant and you should go look him up), established the idea of Movie Mondays with my father in which he educates me in classic cinema (so far we've watched 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Maltese Falcon') and had more fun & sunburn than I've ever had before.

That's enough blabbering on from me for the moment, I do believe. Perhaps thou shalt be hearing from me sometime in the future.

Lucy

I got a question for you... Why are you still here?

Giggity.

Well, we only just realised that this still exists, so myself, Sally and Ben thought that we would say a big hello to the nothingness of the internet! Year 12 is finished (except for Bennyboy) and we're waiting on uni offers. A lot is going to change, it's a new year and we're all going new places (again, except Bennyboy) but we're going to keep each other (and you, anonymous reader) posted (how's that for a blog pun?) on what we're up to.

IRRY

xx michael, sally-anne and bennyboy.