"Are you still roving?"

Life is depressing enough these days without canceling my trip. Yes, I'm still planning to go unless they don't let me. It has to be better than being here at the epicenter of the virus. I am canceling trying to have my house as Airbnb  because who the hell's gonna come to Seattle?

 Besides I'm sure I would lose a lot of money, not just for rescheduling my flight but rescheduling or canceling 16 reservations and payments for lodgings! And tours, etc. 

Stephanie and her husband Scott are in a worse position because they were going to take a 3 week repositioning cruise from Argentina to Italy and after 4 hours on the phone they got credit for the cruise but they don't know where they're going next! They are away for 8 months total so it dwarfs my measly 8 weeks!

 Of course, I am worried that pubs might be closed and museums might be closed in Ireland and the UK, just like here, but they have so many fewer cases that it seems like it would be a better place to be for a while. My housesit might be canceled (the coupleare going to Barcelona for a wedding). Everything is changing from one day or even hour to the next, it makes me tired!

C. won't even go out to a restaurant with me to celebrate her birthday. I went to a play last night, supposedly a Meet up group but nobody except me showed up. My friend I. and I go to Nia exercise class and I hope that's not going to be canceled; it's always fewer than 10 people.

 So the compromise with C. is that she's coming over here and we're going to share a bottle of wine. I'm going to get take out from the local Thai restaurant so that I help patronize the local businesses some of which will surely not make it through all this the enclosed.  Yesterday N. posted that she was the only one on the Link train car which seats 50 people and she said that has never happened before. We are turning into a ghost town. I hate it!  

I do feel good about the dogs whose owners are probably walking them and staying with them a lot more than usual because there's almost no requests for walkers on Rover!

 I am not going to let this confine me to my house. It's just too hard! And it all still seems like people are overeacting. I went to Trader Joe's yesterday and forgot to buy tp! I am in denial, I guess. They told me they were out, anyway. Target had no hand sanitizer for sale so I made my own and then read it is lacking emollients that the commercial stuff has.

I took a screen printing class yesterday and there was only one other student. I guess I'm doing more than I realize!

I went for a walk today with M. My book group is canceled for Sunday. And that is about all I have planned. 

 I did go to the senior center around here and get a 1/2 hour massage for $30 yesterday but today they're closed because of the virus.

 I sort of panicked a bit when I heard trump was forbidding travel to the UK. I thought that included me but no,  I misunderstood.   I said trump probably doesn't even know that Ireland is part of the EU to an usher and another man last night at the play's intermission and the customer said that I was being condescending. I told him later that that was rude and he apologized. Turns out he's a Bernie voter, defending Rump's intelligence?