So I’m considering buying the DVD box set of Keen Eddie when I get my paycheck. I’ll have more than enough and I’ve wanted it for nearly five years. But, I know I should I get something paractical, like groceries or something. What to do? I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it, and other cliches.

So I read an old At World’s End article yesterday, and it had the cutest quote from Gore Verbinski discribing Captain Jack better than any I’ve heard before: “He’s a fly you can’t swat. The booger that’s stuck to your finger, and you flick it and it’s on your other finger. And you try to flick it again, and he keeps coming back. He’s pesky in that way. In that final battle with Davy Jones, he just keeps showing up.”

So neat! Park West is holding cruise ship art auctions for Park West Art Gallery, a fantastic gallery that holds fine art auctions all over the United States and Canada. According to their blog, they’re featuring Itzchak Tarkay’s serigraphs right now. They’re so beautiful, and in this mesmerizing, almost spooky kind of way. I think my favorite is “On the Scene,” but it’s hard to choose.

Park West Art Gallery also features the work of Thomas Kinkade, one of my favorite mainstream artists. There’s something about the richness and warmth of color in his painting that makes me want to live in those places. “Everett’s Cottage” is my hand’s down favorite of his, and has been ever since I saw it nearly ten years ago on a home shopping channel. It’s really the berry tones that do it for me.

So Faith got a case of Maxxed Energy Pops in the mail today, which are very cute! They taste a bit like Gatorade, they’re green and have black sticks, (that’s the surge color scheme, if you remember correctly) but they come in narrow pop-top cardboard cans to make them look like energy drinks, which seems like a waste of packaging to me.

On another note, Faith and I will be ordering our Schwann’s today, which I’m thrilled about, because we’ve been hungry for so long it almost hurts. In fact, it does hurt if you count our stomach troubles and dizzy spells. Here’s hopin’ things get better!

So, remember I was talking about ZenniOptical.com? They sell these really cute prescription glasses online, some as low as eight bucks a pair. Well, now you might’ve seen Zenni on Fox News. Good for them! Zenni has a huge selection, anything you could find at a regular shop and more, and the frames are really beautiful.

Plus the fact that they sell online is great for me in particular. So, wasting away in the boonies, not a lot in the way of nutrition, my vision gets worse everyday and I’m always bumping into things. I don’t know if it’s my eyes, my circulation or what, but there’s no eye doctor out here and even if I got myself some prescription glasses on a rare trip out of town, there would be no local place to fill the prescription if my glasses broke (something that happens to me all the time with sunglasses).

So we got to see two movies this weekend: The Greatest Game Ever Played and Letter From an Unknown Woman, both beautiful films. I was amazed that the former got such terrible reviews and that I’d never heard of it before. Disney must’ve ate it or something — anyway, it was lovely, and the fact that the events in it were true was even more amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone, and Letter From an Unknown Woman. So sad and romantic, you know from the beginning what to think of it.

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.