get my own apartment

get my own insurance – I’m still under my dad’s Allstate policy.

find a roommate – which doesn’t seem like it’ll be very difficult. I have a few friends who’ve been asking me about rooming.

a second job – or a new job all together. I love working banquets because it’s always different, and there’s lack of routine. But you never know what you’re pay check is going to be, or how much work you’re going to have next week. Lots of people who work with me have a second job.

look into school – a lot of people I go to work with are in college too. good thing about my job is there’s often times lots of time to study. And my supervisors seem really good at working around school and second job schedules.

visit Indianapolis – I might want to go to school and live here. I already found a place I like in new Albany, but I’d like to keep other options open too. And if I am going to go to school maybe I could just live on campus for a while.

save up 6 months expenses

I found a place I like and am researching my finances to see if I can afford to live for $635 a month. (is that too much? prepaid electric, water, trash, and sewage, plus furnished with kitchen appliances like dishwasher, fridge and microwave AND it’s right in town near to my singing teacher, not far from work, and not far from mom and dad either)

Anyway, point, not two days ago my dad said to me “I’m so glad you’re not one of those kids whose in a hurry to move out. i can’t imagine what it would be around here without you.” I felt so bad I cried!

Mind you I am 23. I want to gain my independence. It’s not that I don’t like living at home.

But I have only been making a little more than 400 every two weeks from work lately, and these next two weeks I’m only on for three days cause nothings going on.

I’m not sure what to do. I think I’m stressing myself out.