I have yet another stinkin' cold! This is the third one I've had in the last six months!. And, just to add an exclamation point on the whole thing, my face is breaking out big time. Clearly, there are a ton of toxins my body is trying to get rid of. NOW.

Can't do much about the zits, but I did drag my sneezing, sniffling, sorry-assed self over to Trader Joe's at 9 a.m. to get the ingredients for chicken soup. It was quite tasty, thanks for asking! Just wish I'd have been able to round up some ginger to add that extra bit of zing to it, but it's really quite good as-is.

But this "down time" has given me pause to reflect on why I'm suddenly sick every two months, so I'll just break this down: A little over six months ago there was a change in my life: A change that should have alleviated stress, but instead seems to be causing even more of it (and it seems to have increased tenfold in the last six weeks or so).

In the two years prior to that, when I had plenty of reasons to be stressed out, I had ZERO colds...and that includes all the time I've spent at school, where viruses run riot! And in the years before that, where I had a somewhat stressful existence at work AND I took public transportation every day (that other viral smorgasboard), I'd get maybe one cold a year.

Well guess what, folks? I'm sick-and-tired (literally!) of this! I'm sick of being so angry and frustrated by 6 p.m. that I don't want to talk to anyone for the rest of the evening. And I've had it with being so stressed out that my immune system is so severely compromised. There need to be changes...oh yes, there WILL be changes!

Stay tuned.