Having some drama regarding the house.
Dann should be finished with the sheet rock in the kitchen tomorrow (yay!) and my FIL finally agreed to hire someone to tape the walls (fill in the spaces between the sheet rock and make it smooth). They might start installing the floor soon as well, which is awesome. We could be about a month away from a fully renovated kitchen. My FIL has been doing more work in the bathroom, but no idea what it is. I thought the plumbing was done, but apparently not? He has to use a blow torch tomorrow and needed to know when Dann would be coming over so he can use it. He wants someone there with him just in case something catches on fire. (And it seems to me like maybe we should hire someone for that, but whatever!)
Anyway, that’s not the drama.
My MIL texted us tonight all upset. She said she’s been going to the doctor 2Xs a week for the past 3 weeks for high blood pressure and stressed. She’s so stressed out because my FIL is stressed out about the house. She was finally told that we’re not going to tile the bathroom, we got a shower surround instead (it’s easier to keep clean and no one actually knows how to tile anything…my FIL said he could figure it out, but he got small tiles and it’s going to get fucked up without those spacer things he refuses to buy…he also bought this tile like 8 years ago when he ripped out the bathroom and hasn’t put back together…so whatever). So she was all mad that my FIL apparently spent a lot of money on these tiles that we’re not going to use and we need to make sure he takes them back to the store to get store credit (who even knows if they’ll do that…we probably should but them on FB marketplace and sell them). She was saying that we’re not respectful of my FIL and Dann and his father shouldn’t be arguing (my FIL yells at Dann all the time…even my dad commented on it while he was there and said that my FIL treats Dann like shit and he feels terrible for Dann). She also wants us to replace the door going to the basement. Regarding that…there was a door in the kitchen going to the stairs that lead to the basement and the outside door. We decided to get rid of it because it interfered with the door at the back of the kitchen going outside. We’re going to put a door in at the bottom of the basement stairs instead, but she doesn’t know that. Dann said she is just looking for attention because no one is doing what she wants. She wants to dictate how to renovate this house from Florida and do it her way even though she won’t be living there and isn’t putting any money into it (we are basically paying for everything right now…my FIL bought the flooring for the upstairs and the pipes, but that’s it, even though he told us he’d do everything for the bathroom). She also texted everyone yesterday telling us to call my BIL and say goodbye because he lives in New Orleans and was riding out the hurricane at home and was going to get hit hard. He’s completely fine, some damage to his home and he was out of power, but he texted today saying he was fine. She’s very dramatic at times. She’s also been texting everyone a lot lately with little response from anyone, so she’s feeling a little insignificant I guess. But she gets stressed and then she texts us and makes me stressed and it’s annoying.
So now I’m getting even more worried without having anything in writing about the house and my in-laws are probably going to hold this over our heads until the day they die. She’s going to want to come up to NYC any time and live with us for months on end (she already told us to make an apartment downstairs for them with a mini kitchen, which is not fucking happening) and she’s going to constantly talk about all the sacrifice my FIL has put into the house, even though it’s our money and Dann has spent every weekend since March working with his father. He also spent his entire 2 week vacation working on the house. They also haven’t thanked my father yet for coming down and spending 10 days working on the house and re-wiring the entire house FOR FREE. He’s come down multiple times now and no one has thanked him (except for me and Dann of course). So I’m also getting a little pissed off at everything. She can come up to NY whenever she wants. I don’t know what she’s waiting for. I also just want this fucking bathroom finished so we can tell my FIL to go to Florida and relax. I almost want to tell him now…we’re already hiring a taper, don’t worry about the rest of the bathroom, we’ll hire someone to finish up and he won’t have to stress about it anymore. We can send pictures about the progress if they want, but we’ll take it off of their hands completely. sigh I just wonder if they’ll ever put our names on the paperwork. I’m really worried about it.
So…house drama. ridiculous.
~mana~
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