Ah well, time for the next round of thought processing.  I suppose we've moved forward a little bit, as to thinking on what to do about a vehicle for my husband.  We're sort of running out of time as it is, so we need to figure this out quickly, but I already have a feeling it just isn't going to go smoothly, no matter how quick or slow it goes.

It looks as if it's just not going to be worth it to do the motor, because just to have the guy tear it apart to see what it'll need to do to the motor is going to cost us $200, even if we don't have him do anything.  My husband COULD put the motor in and just change a couple of minor things that he knows how to do, but he doesn't know if that motor is still good, or any of that, so in essence, it would be stupid to put it in, just to potentially find out it doesn't work or something.

We spoke with my uncle about the car he's selling, and he'll sell it to us for $700, then figure around $300 for license, insurance, etc.  Also, he said he understands we're in a rough spot so he'd work with us if we couldn't pay him all at once.  So for $1000 we'd have a vehicle that is running right now, doesn't need any immediate work unless we decide we want to get new shocks, which of course we will in time, but my point is that it is not in such dire need of work that we'll have to spend another $500 just to get it running.  Also, everything works in it, radio, ac, heat, etc.  It'll be great on gas, it has lots of trunk space and the back seat even folds down so you get more space.

I could slap my FIL and husband, because when we were at the farm to feed the pets he said he was talking to somebody about getting a truck, for a cheap price ($350) and all it needs is a rear end.  Well that just fucked things all over because then my husband got all starry eyed thinking that it would be great if he could get another truck.  Is the dip shit missing the fact that he's gonna need something he can drive right now?  Further, I'm not spending an arm and a leg to do major repairs to something. 

Further than that, when I mentioned this fact, that we may not be able to afford everything to get the truck up and running right away, so we probably shouldn't do it, my FIL piped in with 'Well heck, I'd pay for it and take care of it and just let him drive it.'  NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.  We are not doing that shit again.  I told my husband last night, 'If you want to do that, well you can kiss every last bit of independence and privacy we've gotten, or are working towards, good bye.  You might as well just go move back in with daddy because he'll OWN you if you do that.'

I can already see where that whole situation would go.  My FIL is thinking he wants that truck for himself.  Even if we were to buy it out right and it would belong to us, he'd still be asking to use it all the damn time, and my husband is so fucking spineless that he'd let him, on the condition that he pay for the gas, never mind the wear and tear on the vehicle.  My husband doesn't know how to simply say 'No.'  I don't want that stuff going on, I want to be off limits, and non-valuable to those people.  We'll never be rid of them otherwise.