flipping out about money

[pinknic38]

So we're down to crunch time (I leave in 22 days for my Europe trip) and I've been hit with some crazy news. They've been over paying me (aka, still paying me combat pay) for 3 months now and apparently they're taking 2K out of my bank account which will leave me with about 500 bucks in the bank. I get paid 1 more time before I leave and then again once I'm there for 2 days, but they're pro-rating my pay for the additional overpay, so my paychecks have been like not even $400 and that together is my car & insurance & cable bill!

I am flipping out!

I have deposits on all my hostels, airfare is paid, most transportation is paid for with the exception of going to Munich from Stuttgart on the train and going from Cologne to Frankfurt at the end of my trip via train. And of course the Celine ticket is paid for. I'm going to be there 15 days (4 days in London, 4 days in Germany, 4 days in Poland, 3 days in the Czech Republic)... what is fucking reasonable tight budget? I know I'll be hurting in London the most, but I don't know what I'm looking at expense-wise. I was plannign on doing a bike tour of Munich and I think that's like 15 euros, and the tour to Auschwitz and then Jewish Krakow the next day amounts to like 10 USD and that's all I really had organized. I don't eat 3 meals a day normally and I won't there.

Anyway right now I am FREAKING OUT about money. I think I might have to open a credit card just to go! I almost was just not going to go, but I bought that Celine ticket and can't sell it so I'm fucking going, if I have to sleep outside and eat dirt for 15 days.

Any thoughts, advice, etc?