Everyone stop giving to the "Premier's Flood Relief Fund". All those stupid signs about helping your QLD brothers and citizens of the world, blah blah, it's a total lie. Nobody is getting the money. It's a load of shit.

I'm so angry about the whole situation, it's been 7 weeks since the floods and nobody has gotten a cent of that money. It was ( Read more... )

Going back through these photos for the first time since we took them, I realise how much photos and video footage can never capture. Through these photos, you will never feel the emotions, the stench, the sounds, the darkness and suffocating heat in the house. It made me realise how little we really see on TV when we see the pictures of the ( Read more... )

On the flood note, we are all doing much better now. My mum took it all the hardest because she has attachment issues, but the rest of us are trying to treat this as a new start. As my dad keeps saying, the fact that over half of our possessions were destroyed forced us to get rid of a lot of shit. I mean, seriously. We had everything in our house ( Read more... )

Please keep in mind that this is what I felt during the moments that I was writing these entries. I'm keeping them exactly as they were and not editing in my current thoughts and feelings. Some have changed. For example, a week ago, I thought myself quite unlucky. With what has happened in the last few days, I know that I am one of the luckiest ( Read more... )

Just a quick update ( Read more... )

Oh how I have missed the internet!! *hugs everyone*

No, I didn't die. Nor did I have an extended stay in hospital. Nor am I drinking myself into a depressed stupor and whoring in a back alley.
I moved house and it took an exorbitantly long time to get the phone connected. And then the very same day we got internet back, Windows mysteriously deleted ( Read more... )