my dad did get the grand marquis...peter and I picked up a BMW 325e today that he bought for 450...it is now sitting in my driveway awaiting spring and wrenching...unfortunately, it does have the BMW Shimmy in the front end and few other issues, the most concerning being the coolant leak and the power seats not working. Everything else is minor, annoying stuff...once it gets screwed back together, it is the $500/500k rally car...while James (peter's brother) doesn't think we'll make it past St. Louis, damnit, it's California or Bust....although I have to admit that running a car 3,000 miles cross country and the racing it means that there is a lot of prep work to do....

Jay is doing well and eating and feeling much, much better...I think she'll be ready to go home tomorrow night if she can stand walking around and sitting up most of the day....I think the doctor's said once she eats three full meals and can walk/sit up, she can go home....

Here's the Friday Five only a day late this time...
1. What is your most prized material possession?

my wedding ring...everything else I own can be replaced or is unimportant...

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?

I don't know off-hand, I have stuff animals from when I was 4 or 5...somewhere...the children have run off with them...oops

3. Are you a packrat?

yes, although I'm trying to change...I'm getting better about keeping useless junk

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?

spic and span but I'm so tired after work, it's not much of priority...or I'd rather spend time with my wife....

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?

theme - lived in, knick-knacks - stuff that's not where it belongs