My brother and his wife are trying to help me move out to Tennessee and go back to college… so, I’m just going to compile a list of things I need to get done (in as chronological an order as possible)

• First, I’m going to take some driving lessons and get my license. I have (and I mean *HAVE*) to get my license before I go to Tennessee.
• Save money. I need to save money, first of all, to pay for the driving lessons, the plane ticket to Tennessee (I thought they were travelling by car, that way when we come back, I can bring some of my belongings with me. I guess we’ll have to get them at a later time.) Anyway, this is going to be ridiculously difficult with my dad around, so I’m going to have to be super extra sneaky with the money… I have some ideas. But I need to remember that (NO MATTER WHAT!) I should not give my dad any money except what I pay him for rent.
• I’ve actually started doing this today… but I have to start trying to pay off the college debt. I absolutely cannot (I hate all of these strong tags I’m putting in here) go to any college with a tuition debt. I spoke with the debt agency they hired, and I can probably get a loan to pay the debt… if not then I’d have to work something out with the debt collectors. Maybe if we can work something out I can go back to college and pay off ODU (with a loan, or the actual debt if a loan doesn’t work out). One problem with a loan is I may have to get a co-signer… ew… Anyway, this would extend possibly far past the two months, but it would be good if I got it started.
• Pay off my bank, and the hospital (hospital is my parents’ fault, bank is mine). I hope those haven’t screwed up my credit. If so, the above bulleted item will be more difficult. I’ll probably use the credit card to do this, I can at least pay the whole bank off and some of the hospital bill.
• Once I get to Tennessee I have to get a job. Which would be no problem for me, except I may only have one or two weeks to get a job (because that’s really as much time as my backup cash can take me). And there’s not much work out in Tennessee from what I’ve heard, but I think that what I’m hearing is alot of FUD.
• I need to try to keep myself together while I’m at it. The next two months I will likely have a nervous breakdown of some kind (most definitely caused by my dad, in fact he just came in as I’m typing this being his usual douchebag self)… every time I’m around him, and everything he says makes me lose more and more hope for myself.

Just reading that is overwhelming and exhausting… I can at least try. Any comments and moral support (some people seem to thing I don’t even deserve that though) welcome.