The Friday Five, 6/19/26: 5 things I've been up to this week
Overall this has been a good week, and Baby K has a doctor's appointment (10-month well visit) today so I was able to sleep until 8am or so, which was also very nice.
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What I've been up to this week:
- Buying a new car, and more car issues. My husband's 2014 Hyundai had about 140,000 miles on it and was nearing end of life, so we got him a 2026 Explorer. It's a super nice car, but was a "courtesy car" for the dealership, meaning it had 1,000 miles on it already. There were a few quirks that needed fixing, so we had it for about two days and then they gave HIM a courtesy car (also an Explorer, not as nice as ours tough) so he's had that this week.
In terms of MY car (also a 2014, a Honda Accord), I went to go do errands during my lunch on Wednesday and it went from like 1/4 tank of gas to showing zero by the time I had driven one street away. I immediately turned around and went home ... I had never seen that before. :(
We luckily have a gas can, so on Wed. night my husband filled it up with about five gallons of gas, and that night my car was showing 1/4 tank again. I was going to take it to the shop but it was holding at 1/4 tank, so on Thurs. I tried again to get to the gas station, and was able to fill it up completely. Fingers crossed that it was just a weird, one-time fluke. - Hanging out with a friend. I don't get to do that much nowadays with a baby, but a friend came over on Sunday afternoon and brought us takeout from The Great Greek WB (their BOGO deal is still ongoing, btw, and is great - about $14 for two huge gyros). She came to visit with Baby K too, of course, and it was nice to see her.
- Getting takeout/delivery. As I mentioned above, last Sunday we had The Great Greek. We got delivery from El Patio this week as well as Shesh Besh Grill down the street (chicken shawarma-type sandwiches). I have a free Green Lantern bread coupon I have to use by Wednesday, too, so hopefully we can get takeout from the Southfield location. I also got myself 2941 Mediterranean Street Food on Thurs. when I was out doing errands - I LOVE their sandwiches - and Wed. night my husband brought home Culver's for dinner since he was at Costco Gas to get me gas.
- Getting our garage door fixed. Everything decided to break this week, apparently, but this one was at least an easy fix ... I called on Monday and the garage door company came over on Tuesday. It looked like some sort of critter had eaten through the wires, so they replaced them / fused them together somehow, it took less than 15 minutes and now it works fine.
- Watching movies/TV shows. I binged Wayward, on Netflix, which came out last year, and I LOVED it except the ending was super ambiguous. It's classified as a limited-series, meaning there would only be the one season, but I hope they do more. I rewatched the original Toy Story and I will rewatch the others, too, in preparation for the new one, and I also started Cape Fear, on AppleTV, which is good and creepy; I have never seen the movies though (one from the 1960s and one from 1991, I believe, with Robert De Niro) so perhaps I should watch those.