The last two weeks I have felt worse on top of the other stuff.  Tonight I am just tired of all of it and I am hurting enough that I feel horrible.  NOt the worst I could feel but enough that i am grumpy, not smiling, and even more aggravated becasue I want to spend some time with my husband and be able to enjoy his company and not have to share it with the pain.I did paint today.  The paint a day calender had really helped me to paint.  I select the ones i am interested in.  I want to work on portrait painting so I have been doing some of the portraits but putting my face in the paintings.   If i paint the nude examples i put cloths on them; i study them to learn the human form but i do cloth them, just my preference.   oh great i am being teary.  guess i feel worse than i realize.  Ben my kitty has come over to comfort me. ah. The dry skin is only better becasue of the RX Fluocinone Acetonide oil.  I have started taking 1 pill 50mgs of zinc on Mondays in hopes of helping my skin and immunity system.  Mineral deficiency can take longer to react to supplements than vitamin deficiency.