Stresssssss

Let's just say the last 24+ hours have been a little stressful. It started last night on my way to my parents' house: I had a bag of bagel chips open and sitting on the passenger seat so I could eat them on the way and a thought passed through my mind. I thought "If a deer or something ran out into the road in front of me and I had to slam on my brakes, these chips would spill everywhere..", and then a few minutes later what do you know, a deer bolts out across the road right in front of me. I came so close to hitting that deer - I heard my tires squealing or something (I don't know though because my car has ABS), and I had to swerve the tiniest bit, but that deer was mere feet from my car. That just about gave me a heart attack... However, because of the slight downhill slope at the end of the road where I live, I have a habit of putting my arm out when I hit the brakes to keep whatever is on the passenger seat from falling on the floor, and so none of my chips spilled.
And then what came was worse. When I got to my parent's house and shut off my car, I could see steam just rolling out from under the hood of my car. At first I thought it was smoke, but I got out and smelled it and it just smelled like hot car. I was concerned though because it was hissing and didn't stop steaming, so I called my dad outside to look at it. After some examination we discovered that water/antifreeze was pouring out of the motor (not the radiator). Not good... Especially for a person prone to anxiety. Especially when this anxiety-prone person has to drive to Veremedy the next day, and then back to her apartment an hour away, plus the weekly commutes that will soon begin. There was nothing we could do then so Dad said he'd look closer in the morning. So this left me worried about my car and what I was going to do if it couldn't be fixed, and worried about Veremedy the next day... Ugh.
But in the end my day at Veremedy went well, and Dad thinks that a new water pump may fix my car problem. If not then this weekend I will be car shopping. I'd almost rather do that anyway because my car is old (a '98), and needs several new parts. What's holding me back is that it's my first car, the interior/exterior are in beautiful condition, and it only has like 120k miles on it. But we will see what happens.