Why doesn't this man understand?????
FIL called DH. He wants DH to design him something on the computer. Well, DH is sick, so I call him back. He wants to know what I've been up to. I tell him I had an interview today. He wants to know if I got a new job. I tell him no. I just went to the interview to check it out. I tell him where I'm considering working, and he starts in with all this... "Well, if you want a new job, you should come down here. You can go to work for the state here. You can do what Karen's doing (NOT ON YOUR LIFE!). All the departments are hiring. The state of LA needs people." I told him I didn't want to be in that line of work and I didn't want to move down there. THEN he starts in on me about using the rest of my vacation this year to come to see them.
Ummmm... What part of NO don't you understand? The N or the O???
I am just so flustered. I do not want to spend what little time I have off with them. I want to spend some time with my husband and my son. I want a real vacation. If I can't have a real vacation off somewhere, then I want to stay home and just enjoy the time off.
WHY can't they understand that? Why can't he understand that we're doing just fine without them and that We'd really like to have some time ALONE. The three of us are a family. The three of us alone are a family in and of itself. Our ability to function as such does not depend on their being here.
Good luck, and stand your ground!
to your FIL!
) I will make sure of that one way or another!
No, probably not. But like I care at this point. 
They are fixing to buy some new equipment, so they want DH to help them select it and probably install it, too. I told DH that was fine as long as it wasn't the week after Christmas. He said it depended on how much they paid him and how soon. they have to pay his way down there, plus pay him for his time and services. I told him the only problem with that was that they'd want to see the kid, too. And I'm not going down there. Which means there will be nobody to watch the kid while he's working, because MIL will be at work, and FIL is inept. Reference the evening MIL, DH, and I went shopping and the child was stuffing things down the toilet.... Anyhow. I told him just to tell his dad to stop harrassing his wife! (It may not do any good, but.... )
