Ha, thanks guys.

Still not 100%. Need to get a second job, firstly. Gonna write out a budget etc. tonight.
Good news!!! I don't remember if I've really talked much about my one friend, here-- the one who met Trent with me at the NINJA show (sin was there!)... but he and I were like, very best friends for a couple of years, and before I went to France, we were basically dating. Things got messy/weird when I got back though (actually, I'm pretty sure that I vented about all of this back in August and September), and we didn't see each other for a year (even though we were both going to the same school) until about this past February. We got lunch once, and that was about it.
But we hung out again like, all day yesterday, and it was so much fun, and so awesome, and things happened I probably shouldn't post about that have made me a very happy girl.
I needed something good to happen.