Okay, here’s a new one: did you know you can get stem cells out of menstrual blood? Yep, believe it or not, stem cell can now be harvested by way of your monthly visitor. There’s a service called C’ell that let’s you do what you’ve gotta do at home, yourself, fast and painless. You can go see their Celle Client Testimonial and decide for yourself, but I think it’s a great idea, if you can get past the social daintiness at the topic. The stem cells you harvest could do you or a close family member a huge favor by building a portfolio of stem cells now, in the hopes that they could someday serve as the basis for customized regenerative therapies against disease.

In honor of the launch of C’elle, they’re offering discount introductory prices for their services, one of those “for a limted time only” deals. If you really think about this, it’s kinda taking lemons and making lemonade, if you don’t mind the scary mental imagery. When we ladies aren’t heavey with the little bundles of joy, our periods are really good-for-nothing freeloaders, costing us hundreds of dollars a year and giving us nothing but grief, but maybe this way, your Aunt Flo might finally pull her weight. And maybe this is a way of harvesting stem cells that won’t upset anybody. Here’s the press release:

Taking Control: Future Therapies for a Host of Serious Diseases May Be Found in Women’s Menstrual Blood

July 07, 2008: 01:28 PM EST

OLDSMAR, Fla., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — With today’s hectic lifestyle, where most women are juggling careers, family, relationships, and a host of activities, the idea of possibly facing a serious illness in the future is not something that readily comes to mind — especially when a woman is in the prime of her life. But what most women don’t know, is that the key to treating a number of possibly life-threatening diseases that she, a parent, a sibling or even her children may face in later years, such as osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, may be found within her own body — in vital stem cells, which can now be harvested from her own menstrual blood.

Now, thanks to the revolutionary research and technology of C’elle, a service dedicated to providing women with a safe and easy method of collecting and preserving stem cells found in her menstrual fluid each month, even the busiest woman can take control of her future, right in the privacy of her own home. With C’elle’s non-invasive collection process, menstrual cells are processed and cryo-preserved (stored at a very low temperature) for potential cellular therapies that may be used in the future. These self-renewing cells one day may even be used for sports medicine or cosmeceutical treatments, such as anti-aging therapies.

“C’elle enables and empowers a woman to take control of her future health, and possibly of those genetically closest to her, in a fast, painless and stress free way,” said Michelle Kay, Marketing and Sales Manager for C’elle. “We live in exciting times, as science and technology are discovering how extremely valuable menstrual blood stem cells really are, and the enormous treatment potential they represent for future therapies. C’elle’s ongoing research is supporting these promising findings.”

For more information about C’elle, please call 1-877-892-3553 or visit www.celle.com.

So I’m finally getting some clothes washed, but it’s been so humid, most of them molded. Fun, right? I’m so off right now. My day began with an unexpected intrusion from my mother, and whenever she’s around we have to hear her complain about her life in the most depressing and hostile way (despite it being better than everyone else’s), squawk loudly on her phone to no one in particular, and hear her complain about the state of the property, oblivious to the fact that’s it’s been through floods, freezes, godly wind storms and whatnot.

She also seems to think that everyone’s (even her boss’ and her friends’) time is her time, on account of how everyone besides herself has this hammer-space bedroom to sleep in where it doesn’t matter if they hardly have enough time during the day to eat, bath, clean, work on their house, hold down a job, and sleep, they still have to devote eight hours of their day to her BS errands, favors, and projects. She, on the other hand, never admits to sleeping, despite her sounding (and mumbling) exactly like someone who just woke up every time anyone calls her at home.

She also sees money the same way. She thinks she can pay someone once for their work and refer to that same payment for anything she might owe a person, anything they might need payment for in the future, all expenses, and still calls it a person gift. (”I gave her twenty dollars!” “I give him money all the time!”) Why are some people like that? Sheesh.

Remeber that site I was talking about before, zennioptical.com, the online prescription glasses store? They have some really beautiful frames and, if you’re looking to get a pair of really nice prescription frames that look pretty too, you should really give their site a looky-loo.

They have a huge selection of styles, stuff for men and women, really classy light-weight frames, at no less quality, and you won’t blow the nest egg. Best of all, you can buy on line, which is my favorite. And they have some free stuff thrown in with each order, like a quality hard eyeglass case and microfiber lens cleaning cloth.

So I finally got our air-conditioner turned on last night, and just in time, too. It’s been so muggy and gross all summer, and winter was worse. Now it’s all room-tempeture, and I didn’t die in my sleep, like every other night this year. Yes, I’m being dramatic, but it’s been sickening, literally, to wake up every morning either frozen or fried.

The weather is always better outside than in, but the bugs are less persistant in-doors, so we’ve made due. I kept thinking we should wait it out as long as we could to keep the bills low, but now I’m like, “Screw it.” After everything we’ve been through to keep cost down, I’m just worn the fudge out.

So we got to see “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” Dito Montiel’s fantastic movie starring Robert Downey jr. and Shia LaBeouf. It’s was so moving, and it’s creepy how much Downey and LaBeouf look alike.

Faith has caught a weird bit of flack for her Shia site, on account’a he’s become box office gold. But we’ve been fans of his for years — for me, it was since he did a kick-ass interview with Conan for The Battle of Shaker Heights. He was so funny and weird, I figured he’d do well, but when I found out he was on the Disney Channel, I started feeling sorry for him. I mean, those guys own Will Friedel and Jason Marsden, and I shuddered to think what might happen.

So for the sake of her site, Faith and I watched movies we wouldn’t have tried before because Shia was in them. Like Disturbia: we knew it was loosely based on Rear Window, and I refused to see it for no other reason than that I hate the producer genre of “Just like the original, but with teenagers!” But we tried Disturbia and it was so good, we ended up having to buy it. He’s just really great at picking projects, and is way more talented than people give him credit for. So everybody who doesn’t like him for no other reason than that he’s in big-budget blockbusters or used to be on the Disney Channel can suck it.

Had a great fourth and there abouts, and we didn’t even set off a single firework! I stayed inside the whole day, no dying from the heat or being annoyed by redneck neighbors like last year, plus Faith and I ate up a storm. I fell asleep early, slept for hours, and woke feeling as fantastic as I’ve ever felt.

The cat has food, we have some grocery-type stuff, a DVD on the way, and all’s well as far as I can see! Plus, Adventureland RPG is going fun, having a ball my first time out as Monty! There was some drama on the board over a poor-sport rule-breaker, but the storm has passed….

So they’re having yet another close out at 5.11 Tactical, this time it’s $3.99 for the brown tactical nylon pants, which is better than I think you could get them anywhere else. They also have this promotion going:

Buy any two or more 5.11 clothing items, get free a 5.11 hat and free ground shipping, so I guess you could, what? Get the utili-t shirts three pack and the brown tactical nylon pants, then a boonie hat? I usually don’t like boonie hats, but theirs has a real nice structure to it, plus they come in more color’s than just woodland hunter camo. I find myself leaning toward the HRT grey and black.

Yeah, fourth of July coimg up! I can’t wait, Faith and I already stocked up on food and we had firewworks from the year before, so we’re all set! I’m pretty sure it’s gonna rain though, being that we live in the butt crack of the midwest. And if you don’t know where I’m talking about, just watch the weather channel any week of the year and look for the area that has the most consistant bad weather.

Why do we have such goose-piddle weather, you might ask? Maybe it has something to do with us being in exactly the middle of the country during phases of global climate change. We’ve got heat from the SouthWest, cold from the NorthEast, easy flooded un-tended levvies, and rain on all sides. Oh yeah, and our water tastes like bleach. Top that. *lol*

The midwest is evil. The weather out here has been completely gross, so much flooding you could go on a midwest cruise. Of course, you could always beat the blahs and go on an actual cruise or vacation, which, as it turns out, is really not as expensive as I thought. This guys called TravelStore, Inc produces these two sites called TravelStoreUSA.com and Cruiselocators.com, that let people book luxury vacations (that’s right, “luxury”) to all kinds of places around the world. Their Crystal Cruise agency has prepayment for gratuities and additional shipboard credits on a lot of their Crystal cruises.

You can head off to the Mediterranean with these guys, as in the “romantic gondola rides and fancy shops, gorgeous historic buildings and beautiful, vibrant culture” Mediterranean. And this is on the cheap, mind you, that you could have a lovely Mediterranean vacation, keeping you in the manner to which you might one day become accustomed, fingers crossed. Right now some of them are going as low as $2,995. All nice; nice?

Okay, I just heard about the funniest contest. There’s this game online called Dungeon Runners, and they have these magic dudes (I think they’re objects) called Bling Gnomes. They eat a player’s unwanted items and crap out gold. Anyway, they’re having a contest just for bloggers called “Pimp Your Gnome”.

You’re supposed to buy your own lawn gnome and dud him up fancy and pimped-out, or dress yourself up as a bling gnome. Take pictures, that kinda B.S. Too bad I don’t have the cash or resources to enter, huh? Dern. Oh well, I guess I just won’t link them. :p That’s right, I’m a meany, eat it!