Ugh. I hate that I’m about to write about this. But for the last week I’ve been listening to the doomsday prepping engineers who sit outside my office and now I want to talk about corona virus but then again I don’t want to talk about corona virus because I think it’s been blown way out of proportion.

I’ve been too busy with regular life to worry much, but one of my colleagues came into work the other day and said that there were long lines at a local big box store waiting for the guy on the crane to pull down the pallets of Charmin from the very top shelf.

I told myself I wasn’t going to contribute to this nonsense but after I heard that I had a minor panic attack and ordered an obscene amount of toilet paper for immediate delivery. (forehead smack) Now I’m ashamed of myself but somewhat relieved that if we have to shelter in home for awhile we can do it with toilet paper.

(Even writing that down sounds ridiculous.)

I think it’s important to be knowledgeable and prepared, but equally important to remain calm and not panic and hoard. I’m trying to adhere to the more common sense suggestions: Wash your hands. Stay home if you don’t feel well. Don’t buy face masks; let health care workers have them. Have a bit of extra food in your freezer just in case.

In other news, I had my hair cut and taxes done this week, and watched Miss L at her middle school band concert. I still haven’t ramped up much with my running but I heard a red-winged blackbird in the reeds the other morning which always makes me excited for spring runs!

I hope you are all doing well and not stressing about the news reports. xo

emmett certainly isn’t stressful