HOORAY!!!

After about a MONTH of fighting with my loan company and my bank, I was FINALLY given a refund for the money that was taken from my account!!!!!

I cried when I got the email from Evil ACS and went to my bank account not to see it HORRIBLY overdrawn but with pretty green numbers! Lots of them!!! Which means I can pay back my grandparents now for my plane ticket to Orlando and I can even afford to buy lunch tomorrow at my meeting!

And even though this experience has been AWFUL, I have realized that I had been too dependent on money. I can get along just fine without it. I lived for three weeks on 45 dollars (and 10 of that went to gas). I was innovative and incredibly careful. I've been the ULTIMATE freeloader and have had to get over my pride and ask for a little gas money from a friend. I went through a period where I was very angry and frustrated and all "why me?!" and "why God why!?" And then I realized that life happens. Worse things have happened. What happened to me was just horribly inconvenient. Nothing to blame God for. And certainly nothing for me to find pity in.

All is well. I've lived through it. I'm strong and can live without money! As Jeremy would say, "HOORAY!"