today was fix-it day!

so i brought my car to toyota today for a routine oil change, and then they of course tried to upsell me on the other stuff my car needed! they listed a buncha stuff, like my rear wiper, an engine air filter, an in-cabin air filter, rear brake cleaning and adjustment, and fuel system cleaning. they wanted me to pay $444. which, if i trusted them, i might have paid, but i wasn't too keen on paying that much money for something i wasn't sure about. i went ahead and let them change the rear wiper and the engine filter for $20 total, but deferred the rest to "when i had more money".

and then i texted my handy dandy car guy boyfriend and told him that i needed his expert advice on all the stuff they wanted me to do. he told me he could make me a new in-cabin air filter, and for much less than the $75 they were going to charge me! so we went to home depot and picked up some air filters (including some for my ac unit). and then he went into my car to figure out where the air filter was, and it was hidden behind my glove compartment. and when he pulled the filter tray out - would you believe there was no filter in there at all?!?!? those ppl at toyota tried to have me pay $75 to "replace" a filter that they had forgotten to put in!

i ended up putting in a new filter into my ac unit, and then i went under the sink and wanted to fix the drain for the ac unit - every time we used it there would be a pool of water under jill's sink. we pulled the hose off and found that it was clogged with sediment - no wonder the water would drip out - it was just sitting there with nowhere else to go! we cleaned it out and i reattached it.

i ended up vaccuuming and cleaning out the trash bin and taking out the trash and picking up the mail and all sortsa other stuff that needed doing too. once i get in the fix-it mood then i wanna keep on going till everything's taken care of!

but i was totally impressed with the "make my own air filter for the car" bit. he is too cool!