Scramble! Plus, GRAND Social No. 163 link party for grandparents

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Scramble!

I'm writing this Sunday evening. I just heard from Megan that she and Preston would like me to watch the kids while they move into their new home. Tuesday.

THIS Tuesday. As in, tomorrow.

I said, Sure! (Despite the fact Jim and I will both be visiting them at the end of the month.)

They purchased my ticket to fly to the desert just minutes ago, and I'm now in scramble mode to be ready for a Tuesday departure.

Because of my scrambling, you get this preamble to this week's GRAND Social: a photo of my lovely tabby Abby that I took last week while messing with my camera settings.

tabby cat

No rhyme or reason for sharing Abby with you. Except that I didn't...

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Saturday movie review: Amira & Sam

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I'm not one for mushy, gushy romantic movies, aka "chic flicks." At least not very often. I do, though, enjoy films that have a decent dose of romance—minus the mushy gushy—wrapped up in a good story.

The quirky romantic comedy AMIRA & SAM is my kind of film, with a good balance of sweet and silly amidst some serious social issues.

Amira & Sam DVD

Sam (Martin Starr) is veteran Marine Sargent who's returned home to NYC after...

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Roll with it: TP and me

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Roll with it: TP and me

My husband has been helping out with the household grocery shopping more often lately, which I'm thankful for because I hate, no, I detest grocery shopping. I'm not so thankful, though, for Jim's exclamations and complaints each time he asks what I need him to pick up at the store and I tell him, among other things, toilet paper. Every time.

"How can we go through so much <cuss> toilet paper?" he groans.

toilet paper

After more than 33 years together, my husband still doesn't fully grasp...

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2 things I learned while up on my roof

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I have lived in my house nearly eight years but had never been up on my roof.

Until the Fourth of July.

On July Fourth, Jim and I decided to sit on our roof to watch the many Fourth of July fireworks displays that take place to the east of us and to the west of us. Here's what I learned while up there:

ONE: I need to learn how to photograph fireworks.

These are the best fireworks shots—of more than 70—that I got:

fireworks 

Not so great. I'll be...

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