Financial Aid EXCITEMENT

Well, everything with school and money (or lack thereof) seems to finally be coming together quite nicely. Obviously until I'm sitting in a desk, with tuition and books paid and money in the bank I'm not going to be completely de-stressed about the whole situation, but so far everything appears to be in working order. My financial aid award still has not come, so I made a stop over at the school today to see if I could get the low-down on what my status is and when I'm going to know anything about anything. I got lucky and actually had a helpful person answering my questions, who told me I'm pretty much getting the maximum amount of everything - it's just a matter of time. Apparently enrollment is up 20% and employment is down, so things aren't really getting done as quickly as they should be. Including my financial aid. She gave me some numbers and I filled out a request to take out the maximum amount in loans, and based on all of that I feel extremely comfortable with our money woes. We have another month or two to get through where we're barely scraping enough together to pay the bills, but after that it should be pretty smooth sailing.

And the best part of all of it? We should have enough money to move into our dream apartment at The Lodge. Especially if I pick up a lazy part-time job for a little extra cash, it's more than do-able. I'm beyond ecstatic except for the fact that we have another seven months in our current dump before we can even consider a move.

According to the lady at the school, I should hear something by August 10th. I doubt it'll happen, but I guess we'll see.

Now, lets just hope everything continues down this path of zero problems.