One of the big controversies surrounding cell stem research has been over the use of embryonic cells.  I didn’t know until recently that there are other ways to collect stem cells that can benefit the our health.  One of the processes involves collecting stem cells from menstrual blood!  Isn’t that amazing?  We can collect our own menstrual blood and ship it to a company that stores it for future use in stem cell therapies! 

The company that does that is called C’elle.  You can sign up for their service and they send you a kit that you use to collect your menstrual blood, then you ship it to them where they cryo-freeze it and store it for future use.  I was reading their website, and found that on their Order Now page they are offering a limited time offer to save $200 off of their initial fees.  That makes it a very reasonable price!  On their Pricing page I found that you can order a gift certificate for someone else in any amount over $50, to help someone else you may know and love to take advantage of this new technology!  I think that the medical advances the world has been seeing are amazing, don’t you?

Posted: February 21st, 2009 under Health, Life, Technology.
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I was reading in the local newspaper that the peanut recall has been expanded to include some snack foods sold at the local Cumberland Farms convenience stores!  The recall is for Cumby’s snacks – the hole in one snack mix and the honey roasted peanuts!  Up to now I had gotten the impression that the peanut scare was not around here!  I’m sure that we haven’t bought any of those snacks, but it really is a scary thing.  You have to wonder what foods ARE safe to eat anymore!

Posted: February 20th, 2009 under Food and Beverage, Health, Life, News.
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February is here at last!  February is usually the coldest month of the year up here, and so far that is ringing true – it is 20 degrees below zero, and we have more snow than you can shake a stick at!  I’ve been trying to stay indoors as much as possible because it is a big to-do to get the baby all bundled up to go somewhere.  It seems that the minute you have everyone ready to walk out the door, the baby needs a diaper change, and we’re almost back to square one!  That is one thing about babies that is difficult; keeping the baby dry when you have to bundle up to go out in the cold!  And it really is important to keep the baby dry when it is cold out, to keep the baby from getting sick.

Posted: February 1st, 2009 under Family, Health, Life, Parenting.
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We went out last night to a local New Year’s Eve Party but left right after midnight.  Hubby was starting to get one of his migraine headaches, so we came home.  Poor dear, he’s still in bed resting.  I wish he would go to the doctor and get some of that new medicine that is supposed to work on migraines!  He says that he doesn’t get them often enough to bother, but I’m not sure it’s true.  He’s blaming the headache on cheap liquor at the party; he only had one drink – a rum and coke.  He says that if they use cheap rum he gets a headache.  He said he ordered the brand of rum that doesn’t give him a headache, but they must have used a different one.  That’s too bad, and very aggravating!

I hope you have a great 2009!  I’m looking forward to a better year this year than last year was!  Of course, it’s hard to top having a baby, but I mean financially, etc!

Posted: January 1st, 2009 under Business, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Health, Life.
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I know a lot of people who wear eyeglasses.  Most of the people that I know that wear them just don’t want to have to bother with the routine of taking contact lenses in and out, or cleaning them, or go to the expense of buying disposable contacts.  I’ve heard that the ZenniOptical website is a really great place to buy eyeglasses over the Internet.  Their frames start as low as $8 a pair!

Their company has even been reviewed by the popular consumer advocate Clark Howard radio show, the host claims to have bought some eyeglasses (and several other staff members from the show) from them and is delighted with the good service, inexpensive price, and good quality of the frames.

ZenniOptical has also been featured on the Fox News TV show, as one of the best consumer bargains around.  They sell sunglasses, as well as progressive lenses, bifocals, or single lenses.  They claim that the reason that they can sell glasses so cheaply is because they sell only their own manufactured frames directly to the consumer.  They use no middlemen, and have a very low advertising budget.

It’s time for me to get a new pair of glasses myself, so I’m going to check them out too!  I’m getting pretty tired of spending hundreds of dollars for a pair of frames!

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Business, Computers / Software, Finances/Money, Health, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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