[weekend report]

Friday: Didn't leave the house until late because I wound up hanging out at my house so that I could watch Claire Danes on Kelly And Michael-it was a great interview-the first thing they asked her was about Cyrus(and they talked about Hugh, too). She was on there to promote Homeland(which had its season premiere last night)

Then, I took the bus to Encinitas, but the driver didn't run the a/c. And it was HOT that day. WTF.

I did some Christmas shopping(yep..I try to get some of it done on the early side-I just can't go to the mall at Christmastime. Too many people!

Saturday:I went to Encinitas again and hung out at Barnes &Noble.Then later on we went down to Kearny Mesa and went to 99 Ranch Market which is a pan-Asian(Chinese-Japanese-Thai you get the idea) market.

It's incredible! They have all this stuff I've never seen up close(rabbit! durian!) and they have a tank full of live fish, and whole fish(on ice ) available to buy. Several people on Yelp(I checked  out some reviews before I went) and they said it smelled fishy-well, it would, they have a fish market-but I didn't think it was unpleasant though!)

We went to Jasmine, which my parents had been to before, but I hadn't. Ever since the place down the street from my parents' house closed,we've all been looking for a replacement. Jasmine was pretty darn good. Yep, it's a drive, but it's worth it.

Sunday:My parents and I went to IKEA(usually I'm good for one trip a year but I've been twice recently!) and we ate at the restaraunt. I branched out and had the baby back ribs(usually I have the meatballs). I have to say, the ribs were REALLY good.I would order them again. for sure.