Back and forth and around

For the past three days or so, my main focus has been to set my sights on Tuesday, May 8th. Why, ask ye? Because it's the day I set aside to fly home to New York and pick up a new car. I feel as if I should be really excited about the whole thing, but getting plane tickets, a loan, and a car together this week was nothing but stressful, mainly because until yesterday:

1)I could not get a loan.
2)I could not get two plane tickets for less than 400 dollars.
3)I could not find a car.

Lauren knows this from staying with me: when I am apprehensive or nervous about something and I am in a position to do so, I pace. I think I developed this nervous tick in my current apartment, because I don't ever remember doing it before. Then again, all of my other apartments have been pretty small.

But, I can pace for what seems like hours. Always in the same order--If my apartment were a Family Circus cartoon, it would have looked like this:



So that is how it was: pace, pace, pace, eat something, pace, go to the bathroom, pace, pace. All until Thursday, when I heard back from the latest bank saying that despite my credit, they would give me money, and the car dealership saying there were cars for me. And also Thursday, when I found a cheap flight on Orbitz that had just opened up. The gods smiled down upon me. "Sit down,' they said. "You are making us nervous."