leveling out

so a week ago i was "top tier". well... almost immediately afterward i hit rock bottom. on thursday last week i became incapacitated from stress and some physical symptoms that occurred from it. i was out for all of thursday and friday. saturday i started to rebound, and i was able to get some everyday activities done. but sunday was only worse. i became so stressed out i really couldn't do anything. after a pick-me-up phone call from my boyfriend and then a sweet phone call from my mom, i started to feel better and more in control.

monday was okay. i certainly did not want to go to work after the disaster that was my weekend. but it turned out to be an okay day. we went out to lunch for a co-worker's bday. the highlight was an email from the financial aid office telling me that i needed to approve my summer loan. what?!?! a summer loan. a major cause of my stress was money and how i could afford to move to new york. a loan would take it all away. and since i have already paid off my summer class fees, i figured i could deal with only taking a smidgen of the full amount.

fully believing i was going to take the loan, i called my dad to check to see if he was still willing to chip in a couple hundred to my moving fund. i told him what was going on, and then he offered to loan me the money! one day ago i was totally stressed out because i didn't know where i'd get money from and now i had two sources!!!! ultimately i went with my dad, mostly just because he was so adamant.

having all that weight lifted from my shoulders, i trotted off to u-haul in order to check out one of their "u-box" moving units. although that morning i had forgotten to measure my mattress and to bring a measuring tape. i showed up and it was a mess. i thought it was going to be such a waste of time! but then i ended up with this super friendly salesman. and he answered all of my questions. the box is HUGE! and it holds 2000 lbs. apparently it can hold a studio apartment - bedroom, dining, and living room furniture - without flinching. it doesn't appear to be possible to deliver it to the u-haul closest to my apartment, but i think it'll be okay.

*deep breath* things are coming together. hurray!!!