Lost!!!!

I'm so lost right now!!! As Chicago is getting colder, I'm already planning ahead what and where i'll be going in the coming months, they're all achievable IF i have extra MONEY!!! I have two destinations in my itineraries that i want to visit, Taipei and Ho Chi Minh city, but with the tourist Visa complications i'm having right now, just make it more difficult to plan and save money! To get a visa exemption from Vietnam, i have to have proper documents showing that i was born in VN, however, i'm a US citizen now, so my mom destroyed all those damn papers! making it almost impossible for me to get thing done. For Taiwan tourist Visa, the person working at the Taiwanese consulate asked me to have a itinerary for the trip to Taipei before they granting me a 2 months Visa, although i told her i want to stay for 3 months, she was saying something about I have to fly to HK, making it even more confusing for me. Plus...i can't get the damn itinerary until i know if i'm still going to Vietnam with my mom, making it a hair pulling experience for me, cause i felt like i'm chasing my own tail, don't know which i should do first!!! On top of that, all the major airlines now charging extra fee, plus any price different if i plan on changing my returning portion of my ticket! Damn those airlines trying to squeeze every pennies out of me! what to do!!! what to do!! i need to prioritize!!! and YES, i have to learn Mandarin if i plan on staying for a long visit in Taiwan! urgh!!!!!!!!!! my life is a damn DRAMA!!!!