Jennifer Fallon's Blog

The bastards broke my computer...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:24:00 --0800

Unpacked the computer today. There's a crack in the case and the monitors aren't working. At this rate I'll be getting every penny I spent on insurance back... PS: Sorry to all the people emailing me that I've been ignoring. I will get ba...

About my stuff...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:43:00 --0800

My house looks like a bomb filled with cardboard shrapnel hit it... And the removalists in Australia (bless their cotton socks) wrote things on the boxes like "last minute items" and "misc" and "girls room". Can't...

My stuff is here!!!!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:34:00 --0800

Finally...

After a month of camping in Reynox House like a bunch of squatters, the furniture has cleared Customs and will be here tomorrow!

Woo Hooo!

Well... this is depressing...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:54:00 --0800

Things Your Body Does Every Day (That Can Destroy You)

A few questions about Abba...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:33:00 --0800

So... there are lots of signs around here advertising "The Best Abba Show in New Zealand", which I think is on sometime in March in one of the local town halls. So here're my questions... How many Abba shows are there getting about ...

Bruce 0 - Hedgehog 1

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:05:00 --0800

Mount Bruce found a hedgehog in our yard yesterday. Unfortunately for Bruce, he thought it was just a really slow cat and did what he usually does when he spots any sort of cat, slow or otherwise. He runs up to it and starts nudging it with his nose...

Bruce... behaving like a real dog

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:40:00 --0800

We took Bruce to a very picturesque waterhole today, fully expecting him to be afraid of the water, like he was when we took him to the ocean.

Turns out he likes waterholes. He had a ball...

Mount Bruce is liking Middle Earth very much:)

All hail to big strong boys with tats and piercings...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:35:00 --0800

We got a flat tyre, today, in the Bunnings carpark at Tower Junction. That's cool... me and Secondborn are independent women of the world, more than capable of changing a tyre, even if SB's back is stuffed and I'm not supposed to lift anything becau...

Where's my stuff?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:09:00 --0800

Well, I have a desk (or a "disk" as they say here in Kiwi Land...hehehe). I have a footstool. But I'm still sleeping on a sofa bed. My 40' container of, well, everything else I own, is still sitting on a wharf in Melbourne somewhere, wai...

I'm cursed, I tell you...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:05:00 --0800

So... I finally find a desk. I buy it. I pay to have it delivered on Friday. Friday comes and goes... no desk. I ring the retailer on Saturday morning. "Where's my desk?" "Whoops," they say. "We forgot. we don't deliver to...

I still don't have a proper desk....

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:34:00 --0800

It's driving me insane and now I have a stiff neck.

Hopefully problem will be solved tomorrow and I can get to work...

I did buy a new chair, but now, as I'm typing, I realise I forgot to buy a footstool...

oh dear...

Another day in paradise...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:00 --0800

The outdoor setting is still only half put together, and I discovered the joys today, of asking an electrician what needs to be done in a 100 year old house to make the wiring safe. That's going to cost a lot. Not as much as I secretly feared, but c...

Today's achievments...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:40:00 --0800

I put together half the new outdoor setting I signed and sent off some interview reports I was working on before I left Australia. I answered and sent off the questions from the Dutch translator I anwered some fan mail (although ...

Well... I'm in New Zealand...

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:36:00 --0800

Yup... I have moved. I swear, this is the first time I've had time to take a deep breath for more than a week. The house is awesome (although the furniture is still weeks away) and today we went down to the local farmer's market to buy thi...

In which I reflect on the vast gulf between my synopsis and my finished book...

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:28:00 --0800

I've been plotting. Plotting so much I've now come up with a completely different path to the ending of the Rift Runners series, than the one I sold to the publisher. This happens to me all the time. I think I know what's going to happen when ...