My car, the Tribeca, is 11 years old. It runs great, I'm happy with it but it does come with 11-year-old car woes.
I've known this for a while but it will need a new set of tires soon. My plan was that if we replaced the tires, I'm going to want to keep the Tribeca for another 3-5 years to get the most out of the tires.
Yesterday, we found out that that lever for releasing the front hood latch is broken. Again. Yes, this broke years ago and we had it replaced and it is broken again now. I know how to remove the panel to access the steel cable that releases the latch so I'm leaning towards just not fixing it, not replacing the tires and since my company is not making us report back to work in 2020, I won't need the new tires immediately.
When it all goes bad, will just trade it in when I get a new car.
Ano kaya ?
Monday, June 22, 2020
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Yard work
Got a lot accomplished this weekend.
Admittedly, most of it involved the husband catching up on chores around the house.
Saturday, I saw a small bottle of Armorall protectant in the store and bought it for my Tribeca. It's an 11 year old car and desperately needed some pampering. Swe-cha was in front on his bike and the husband was watching him. It was a cool day so I decided to clean my car's interior (long overdue!) and when I started applying it to the interior, husband got curious about how it was coming along and sauntered over. Soon, siya na gumagawa while I was vacuuming the back of the car.
Then Sunday, we also watered the lawn and applied Weed & feed - this bag is actually from last year or the year before. Husband keeps putting it off and I finally got him to doing it now.
Admittedly, most of it involved the husband catching up on chores around the house.
Saturday, I saw a small bottle of Armorall protectant in the store and bought it for my Tribeca. It's an 11 year old car and desperately needed some pampering. Swe-cha was in front on his bike and the husband was watching him. It was a cool day so I decided to clean my car's interior (long overdue!) and when I started applying it to the interior, husband got curious about how it was coming along and sauntered over. Soon, siya na gumagawa while I was vacuuming the back of the car.
Then Sunday, we also watered the lawn and applied Weed & feed - this bag is actually from last year or the year before. Husband keeps putting it off and I finally got him to doing it now.
Friday, June 19, 2020
The joy of being a kid
Today is the last day of school.
Swe-cha woke up (by himself) extra early today. When he saw me, he declared, "Mommy, tonight I am going to pray to God to take away the coronavirus. Mommy will pray too."
If I may provide some context, he has been enjoying online learning so far - mostly the staying at home part and a little less on the actual learning part - and has been praying "Dear God, please don't take away the coronavirus" every single night. He even went as far as to declare "I LOVE coronavirus" during a class video call when the kids were talking about how much they wanted the virus to go away so that places (moviehouses, libraries, parks, ...) can open up.
So today, he has started praying for it to go away "God, please take away the coronavirus, I got to summer camp."
"Anak, it's too late. Summer camp is cancelled, you should've started praying for coronavirus to go away in May."
"But I don't want to go to school!"
Oh-kaaaaay. May priorities siya. I bet he'll be very very sad once it sinks in that he's not going to summer camp at all.
Swe-cha woke up (by himself) extra early today. When he saw me, he declared, "Mommy, tonight I am going to pray to God to take away the coronavirus. Mommy will pray too."
If I may provide some context, he has been enjoying online learning so far - mostly the staying at home part and a little less on the actual learning part - and has been praying "Dear God, please don't take away the coronavirus" every single night. He even went as far as to declare "I LOVE coronavirus" during a class video call when the kids were talking about how much they wanted the virus to go away so that places (moviehouses, libraries, parks, ...) can open up.
So today, he has started praying for it to go away "God, please take away the coronavirus, I got to summer camp."
"Anak, it's too late. Summer camp is cancelled, you should've started praying for coronavirus to go away in May."
"But I don't want to go to school!"
Oh-kaaaaay. May priorities siya. I bet he'll be very very sad once it sinks in that he's not going to summer camp at all.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Doordash
I wasn't up to cooking last night. Thankfully, the husband is easy to convince and we decided to go get some Japanese food. We tried this place for the first time last week when we had food ordered and I really enjoyed their kani salad.
We decided to try some rice bowls this time too.
As I was finalizing my order on Doordash and saw the total, I thought it seemed expensive at $51.xx. 2 rice bowls, 2 kani salads = $59.xx ?
I looked at the breakdown and saw that it had automatically suggested an $8 tip. I looked further and saw both a delivery fee and a service fee. Both fees add about $9. So all in all, I could see that if we went with Doordash, I'd have to pay $9 + tip more. I looked up the restaurant online, checked the address and it was only 2.8 miles away. I figured, nah, not worth $9+tip.
So I called in my order and went.
And guess how much I paid ? $37.
My original total was around $39 and got a 5% discount for paying in cash.
Yun pala, food prices are padded in Doordash pa and on top of this, they charge service fee AND delivery fee. I did some reading and found articles saying that if you send a tip, the company gets it too (or part of it).
Not sure if the price hop is because of Doordash or from the restaurant, I did read that on top of the delivery fee and the service fee, they also get a 20% commission from the restaurant - that probably is the reason for the price difference.
We decided to try some rice bowls this time too.
As I was finalizing my order on Doordash and saw the total, I thought it seemed expensive at $51.xx. 2 rice bowls, 2 kani salads = $59.xx ?
I looked at the breakdown and saw that it had automatically suggested an $8 tip. I looked further and saw both a delivery fee and a service fee. Both fees add about $9. So all in all, I could see that if we went with Doordash, I'd have to pay $9 + tip more. I looked up the restaurant online, checked the address and it was only 2.8 miles away. I figured, nah, not worth $9+tip.
So I called in my order and went.
And guess how much I paid ? $37.
My original total was around $39 and got a 5% discount for paying in cash.
Yun pala, food prices are padded in Doordash pa and on top of this, they charge service fee AND delivery fee. I did some reading and found articles saying that if you send a tip, the company gets it too (or part of it).
Not sure if the price hop is because of Doordash or from the restaurant, I did read that on top of the delivery fee and the service fee, they also get a 20% commission from the restaurant - that probably is the reason for the price difference.
| DoorDash | Restaurant | |
| Kani Salad | 7.99 | 5.99 |
| Kani and Seaweed Salad | 8.99 | 6.99 |
| Chicken katsu rice bowl | 9.99 | 8.99 |
| Chicken teriyaki rice bowl | 9.99 | 8.99 |
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