Christmas shopping for perfume

I happend to be at David Jones and at Myer the other day, and I can say that at the Myers store, which is all stocked-up for Christmas, I've never seen so much shit perfume taking up so much shelf-space. I couldn't find a whole shelf or section for Guerlain in either fragrance department. What is the world coming to?

How much longer will Lili be able to resist the urge to buy Guerlain's newest fragrance?

Advice for worried partners

If your relationship has become riddled with conflict and your partner is untrustworthy, it might be a good time to invest in a glamour photo session, so that if you go missing the police will be able to release to the media some very presentable missing person shots, and you will look like a real doll to the general public.

It's only nutrition - get over it people!

Food is not entertainment. Food and cooking are themes that are not worthy of basing a TV series on. The idea that people should work themselves into a state of desperation in an effort to create a perfect dish is utterly absurd.

Cooking is not a very suitable form of play for young children. They lack the fine-motor skills needed for many cookery techniques, and much of the work of cooking is unsafe for young kids to do. Children also understand little about basic food hygiene.

Food is not love. Food is not an adequate substitute for love. To look to food for consolation for the inadequacies of a poor marriage or bad relationships or no relationships is self-defeating and cowardly. The fatter you get, the less loveable and the more unhealthy you will become. You will shorten your life, giving you even less chance of finding the things that you truly need and desire.

Food is not achievement. Just because you eat fancy stuff doesn't mean that you ever deserved what you get. Spending your time creating fancy dishes seems like a bit of a waste of time.

Food is not status. Some of the wealthiest people in the world like or even prefer to eat very ordinary hamburgers. I dine like Bill Gates when I walk into a McDonald's.

The world does not need any more cook books or recipes in womens magazines. Most people never make any more than a small fraction of the recipes in the cook books that they own. All of the recipes that anyone could need are available over the internet. Most second-hand book shops and charity shops stock a good range of cook books.

Food cannot cure cancer, no matter how often some people claim this is so.

Food cannot heal the mind, unless the mind is diseased due to some type of nutritional deficiency.

Altering your child's diet will most likely not transform your child's personality or behaviour - if it appears otherwise the placebo effect, or regression towards the mean or other scientific explanations need to be considered. Your kids do not exist to please you or to conform to your pre-concieved ideas of what they should be like or who they should be. You are there to serve and accept and raise your kids.

Today's meals are tomorrow's bodily waste.

Bon appetit!

Lili's Thought of the Day

Time stops for no woman, and time takes its toll. These days I no longer have a waist, but it is some consolation that I still have a neck, and my lips have not yet disappeared.

Lili's quote of the day

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields

from:

W. C. Fields quotes at BrainyQuote
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/w_c_fields.html

Lili's tip for the day for the terminally ill

If you are suffering from a fatal illness, and you know that the end is looming close, and you have lived your life according to the rules and pointless rituals and restrictions of a religion, and have made considerable personal and family sacrifices for the sake of your faith and your religious community, and have lived a lesser or harder life because of this, or have been a lesser person because of this, and you are not sure if you will be given a place in the afterlife, either because of a crisis of faith or an uncertainty of your worthiness of a place in heaven, don't ask a person who you know to be an ATHEIST if they think you will be going to a better place!

Worship the Sun God - with caution

Changes to sun exposure policy. Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. June 2012. http://www.childhealthresearch.org.au/news-events/enews-june2012-vitamin-d.aspx

In Australia the Cancer Council are apparently advising us to get some sun exposure in winter to boost Vitamin D levels, contrary to previous advice to shun the sun to avoid exposure to UV rays that can cause skin cancer. 

The mid-winter solstice is coming up soon in the southern hemisphere. In the middle of winter in many parts of Australia the levels of UV are low enough that it is safe enough to be outdoors on a sunny day without a hat or sun protection. Believe it or not, even in a sun-drenched country like Australia there are lots of people, of all ages, who don’t get enough sun on their skin during the colder months of the year to maintain good levels of vitamin D (and they also don’t get enough of the vitamin from dietary sources or supplements). Scientists have only recently become aware of the full importance of vitamin D, and this is still being researched. A lack of this vitamin has been linked to a wide range of serious ailments, including bone diseases, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, peripheral arterial disease and possibly cancer.

So check the current UV levels in the place where you live, and if they aren’t dangerously high, and the weather permits, why not get out in the sun and the fresh air and enjoy a bit of exercise too. Maybe you might like to fix your eye on a landmark on a distant beach, and set aside an afternoon to reach it by foot, maybe taking some time along the way to climb to the top of a large sand dune, and jump down the side of it, rolling and tumbling down as the clean white sand caresses and trickles down your bare skin. This could be more fun if you bring along an attractive companion, or a sheet of cardboard to use as a sled. Either you love sand or you cannot stand the feel of it. I love it. Leaping down the side of a sand dune for fun is considered to be a bad thing by environmentalist kill-joys because it causes erosion, so I advise that you restrict fun on sand dunes to more remote beaches where no one will see.


Of course, it might be wise to curtail your sun-drenched coastal adventure if you find yourself near an army rifle range, or a shipwreck that has a curse on it, or a bloated dead stinking beached whale that is attracting man-eating sharks to the vicinity, or an old WWII bombing range full of unexploded ordnance, or a nudist beach where things happen that you don’t approve of or don’t want to look at or are against your religion, or a dog beach full of dog turds and uncontrolled genetically psychotic pit bull dogs. Stroll at your own risk.


Music tracks to enjoy while mid-winter sunbaking



I am the black gold of the sun – Rotary Connection (recorded 1971)
(from the LP Hey Love)
music clip at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR_NMtBEj4&feature=related

I am the black gold of the sun – Nuyorican Soul (covered 1997)
(from Chillout Classics Disc 2 – Ministry of Sound)
music clip at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzqQOs_IrI&feature=related

The sea – Morcheeba
(from Chillout Classics Disc 2 – Ministry of Sound)
music clip at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnCS25z18pI&feature=related

Waiting for the sun – The Doors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kypyGSKs

Sonne - Rammstein
(from the CD Mutter)
Music clip of lyrics translated into English at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3uxhesiKgE
Regular music clip from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXqEMuXGK08&feature=related

Hymn to the sun – singer counter-tenor Paul Esswood, composer Philip Glass
(from the opera Akhnaten, about the megalomaniac pharaoh Akhenaten who worshiped a sun god and had the legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti as his Great Royal Wife (only wife number 1 actually – not such a great position as it sounds)
music clip at YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_ZUC5uqqc

image of Queen Nefertiti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nofretete_Neues_Museum.jpg

image of Pharaoh Akhenaten depicted as a Sphinx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akhenaten_as_a_Sphinx_(Kestner_Museum).jpg