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shot film this week.
bear with me as i get it processed.

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.:confessions of a western beef customer:.

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I just got back from the grocery store, and I have to admit, I'm pretty fired up. I've been living in Brooklyn for about 3 years, and if there's one thing I could change, it would be the grocery store situation. It's always been difficult to get my groceries from point A to point B without a car, but thus far, I've dealt. For the past couple years my local grocery store has been Western Beef. I loath it, but that's to be expected when you grow up in an area where Wegmans' exists. To put it this way, if Wegmans is the Cadillac of supermarkets, that would make Western Beef the dinky three-wheeled thing that Urkel drove.

I know by now that it's not safe to shop there anytime between 10AM-8PM, which is why I went at 9 this morning. It didn't start out so bad. I only had to wait at the deli counter 3 minutes while saying "excuse me" to the slicer-girl until she realized I was there. Then I got up to the register and there was no line! A FIRST! So I start to unload my groceries on the conveyor belt, telling the cashier as she reaches for a plastic bag, "I brought my own bags." Ohhhhh, wrong choices of words. What I should have said was, "YOU can use these bags to put my groceries in since I don't work here, and it's not my job, and it's not posted anywhere that this line or store is a BYO groceries store." That's what I should have said.

So I have my receipt in my hand before my first reusable shopping bag is packed. And before me is $88 dollars worth of crap groceries, one man behind me in line, and now both him and a very impatient cashier staring at my as I'm loading up my bags with no help. Now I've been a cashier before, and whether or not someone brings their own bags, you help pack them unless they specifically ask you not to. IT'S IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION!!

I'm huffing and puffing while I'm loading my bags as fast as possible. Finally with all my bags firmly stowed in my granny-cart, I go to exit the store. On the way out I see what looks to be the manager standing at the door. I just had to ask...

Me: Um yeah, hi, excuse me. I have a question. What's your policy on bringing my own shopping bags? I mean, if I bring my own does that mean I have to bag my own?

Western Beef Manager: Well you're more than welcome to bag your own.

Me: Yes, I understand that, but I find it kind of silly that I'm bagging my own groceries with no help.

WBM: Why is that silly?

Me: Because it's a cashier's job to cash me out and bag my groceries.

WBM: Look, we're an equal opportunity employer here. (he snickers)

Me: Right. But I don't work here.

(that shut him up real quick)

Me: I'm not trying to make a big deal about it, but it seems to be a popular theme each time I come in; I'm stuck bagging my own groceries with no help, while there is a huge line, and I'm just being watched by the cashier.

WBM: Well, yes. You can bag your own groceries if you bring your own bags. Or the cashiers can help.

Me: thaaanks...

Needless to say I didn't get very far. The manager seemed in full support of the cashier's laziness. I'm not trying to change the world, but all I'm hoping for is that next time I come in, I might get a little help.

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.:jenna & i made it on flickr "explored"
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.:i resolve:.

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my new year's resolution last year was to do this 365 photo project. and although i missed some days, used others' photos of myself, and sometimes completely ignored my responsibility to my 365... i completed it. i completed it my way.

i've had a quite a few people to ask me, "what's next?". that's a really good question...

i was going to blow it off, but honestly it's become somewhat of an addiction. i've only stop less than a week ago, but since then i've been having mini panic attacks at about 12:06 PM every night, waking up with cold sweats thinking i've missed my photo opt that day.

i realize that half way through my 365 project i became incredibly lazy. my enablers were my iphone and computer camera. i started counting how many picture were taking with my actually cameras... well i stopped counting and all i can say is very VERY few.

luckily, just today i was invited to a "52" flickr group. a self portrait a week. i can do that. i was actually thinking of doing that on my own, but this is the little extra nudge that i needed. i'm guessing by 2011 i'll be doing "ashley r thompson 12".

other non-related resolutions...
the ever popular: get in shape
the reoccurring: start my etsy shop
the necessary: learn spanish

here's to 2010... ¡feliz año nuevo!

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.:headgear & smoked laundry:.

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In 24 hours I'll be on a train to Rochester, NY to spend Thanksgiving with my family. In preparation, I had this grandiose idea to clean my whole apartment and do all my laundry the day before. Obviously, my building's dryers had different plans.

8:59 AM: Already slept in compared to my normal 7:30 alarm. Woken up by a text message from the boy... "Good Morning Princess Drool".

-Yes I drool, I drool a lot. And the reason for this stems back to the 3rd grade when an early 90's sitcom landed itself in my backyard, and I was suddenly turned into the kid with HEADGEAR!! Headgear?! Who does that?
Obviously my mother thought the same thing, because as quick as the orthodontist, Dr. Salmon... Marlin Salmon (no joke), told me that I have to wear my headgear to school every day, my mother told me just as quickly that I better not. I thank the Good Lord every day that my mother told me that I only had to wear my headgear at home. She definitely saved me from the worst ridicule that a 3rd grader could imagine.

This headgear looked like a Medieval torture device. Honestly, those were the choices back then. The stocks or headgear. Notice how you never saw anyone in headgear...

It was not humanly possible to close your mouth with headgear on, or in. It consisted of 2 pieces of horseshoe shaped metal. One went inside your mouth and attached to brackets cemented on your molars, and the other wrapped around on the outside all the way back to your jawbone. Then to be most fashionable, the metal attached itself to an adjustable denim, yes I said denim, neck strap.

A good portion of my headgear wearing was during my sleep. I'd wake up in a pool of my own drool and to this day I still do, sans headgear.

9:17AM: Ok, I'm up I'm up! I throw all my presorted laundry in a basket and head down to the apartment basement. And for some reason, I bring an extra quarter with me on purpose. And lo and behold... the price for a wash went from $1.25 to $1.50. I'm telepathetic!! I'm more excited that I didn't have to go back up to my apartment for another quarter than I am upset about the price going up 25 cents. Nice!!

9:26AM: Coffee & Toast & Regis & Kelly.

9:47AM: Head back down to the laundry room to change my laundry over. Dryer #1 - no glass on the window in front. Ok, then I'll use dryer #2.

Load in my laundry, put in my $1.50, press start, nothing.

Stand, stare, jam on the quarter sled, nothing.
Jam. Jam jam jam jam jam jam. Nothing.

*sigh* think about taking all my wet laundry down the street to the laundry mat.

And then my inner MacGyver kicks in. I look behind the dryer and the cord is just hanging there. So I plug it in. It starts, but it's loud. REALLY loud. I weigh my options. Toasted laundry or walking down the street a block to make sure it doesn't go up in flames with the whole apartment building. I choose toasted.

10:30AM: Back down to the laundry room. I'm sniffing hard trying to smell something burning. All I can smell is fried bologna from the floor above me.

Nothing is on fire!

I begin to take my laundry out when I'm surprised by my Super.
"Did you plug that dryer in?"

Dum, dum, dum. *Gulp* "Yes.."

"Ok good.I was afraid you wouldn't have clean clothes."

He's standing about 4 feet from my fresh laundry smoking a cigarette.
Thanks for your concern.

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