Things I don’t deal well with:

Moths
Spiders
Being mollycoddled
Too much attention (I don’t like being suffocated, thanks)
Not enough attention (Nor do I like being entirely left to my own devices for too long)
People with no interest in the world around them
Being lied to/deceived (did I ever mention the ex who lied and told me he adored dogs because I’d stated when we were first dating that I did not date men who disliked dogs? It resulted in a not very happy Ellie. Just as much so as the one who told me that he had a girlfriend and was in an open relationship, did I want in? That’s great information - but tell me BEFORE we do the horizontal boogie, not after. It’s not the kind of info a lass likes to have interrupt her post-coital bliss)
Boredom
Monkeys

Why the list? Well, because I want to focus on the second last point for a minute. I’ve never coped well with boredom, I’m not one of those folks who can sit around aimlessly doing nothing, I need at least my mind or my body (preferably both at the same time) to be engaged in order not to feel like I’m going out of my mind. Last night was a beautiful example of this - being stuck at home with a lip slathered in cold sore cream (and looking rather like I’d given a messy blow job and forgotten to wipe my mouth), I was aching for something to do since I wouldn’t be able to drink cocktails with the girls. I watched ‘Lost Boys’ (WHY is keifer sutherland so damn sexy? *swoon*), and afterwards I started pacing the house trying to find some manner of occupation. My father and brother were watching ‘The Brave One’ in the lounge room, so I sat down to join them, but felt all…fidgety.

“I know, I’ll make dumplings!” I thought to myself, and leapt up and ran to the kitchen. I started dashing about and by the time I’d finished mixing up the filling, it was 10pm. Not too late to start rolling a small pack of dumpling skins…but see, I never do things by halves. Like the 8+ hours I’d spent in the kitchen on Thursday night, I was in for the long haul, and didn’t finish filling my wonton wrappers till almost 3am this morning (though I have to admit that the entire time wasn’t spent on wontons, I also made a pot of miso soup, kimchi and tuna stew and a wakame seaweed salad.

I highly suspect that has got something to do with the bags under my eyes and my aching back, but nevermind, now I’m off to bake cake and cookies!

(Seriously, I need an intervention, this is insane! I don’t know how much more my freezers can hold!)