graduation commemoration in the clouds.

It's that time of year again. When the fresh youth of our world graduate. Become adults. Get impressive jobs. Volunteer with the Peace Corps. Move back in with their parents. Either way, it's time to commemorate the triumphs and the bad decisions. Now, not when your friends are searching for jobs or when it's your turn to contribute material to their wedding slide show. 

Our Ideas For Celebrating Milestones. May Or May Not Be Friend and Family Approved. 

• What entertaining antics do you have on your phone? Friends running shirtless through the arctic tundra of the campus in February? Three bottles of tequila that met an untimely end? Put it all together and voila! Blackmail material for life. (We don't condone blackmail. But we do enjoy displays of collegiate stupidity.) 
• How many pictures of people sleeping in the library have you collected? Make a slideshow and set it to a rousing, dramatic tune. 
• Accomplishments. You have them. Your pals have them. Gather them up and set to We Are The Champions. It's allowed. You just did a big thing. 
• Have a child who's hitting a big milestone graduation? Pull up all your favorite pictures - including the humiliating ones - and put them in a cloud. They'll love it. It may take twenty years, but they'll love it. 

tumble favorites from Instagram's weekend hashtag project

Instagram's weekend photo challenge was street artistry. Everyone else has already participated, because this was last week, but we at tumblecloud have our own set of clocks. Therefore we are jumping in fashionably late.

Backing up the truck for those who shut their laptops and go outside sometimes: Every weekend, Instagram issues a photo challenge and, because Instagram is an amazing app and Facebook bought it for an obscene amount of money, they get amazing submissions. 

Here are a few of our favorites:

Here's our submission, from a slightly judgmental Native American: 

 

give the gift of tumblecloud on Mother's Day

Mothers are some of our very favorite people. They loved us, reassured us, baked us birthday cakes, gave us advice both excellent and questionable. They went through serious hassle to bring us into this world. They may have paid for our college educations. They definitely made us sandwiches. Never underestimate the power of a mom-made sandwich. 

Your mother probably doesn't need another book or gadget. But she'd adore something that shows your love, affection and that you have a better memory than she sometimes gives you credit for.  

Gather Up Your Mom Stories and Hit the Clouds

• What are your favorite mom memories? Games you played, trips you took, music she loved, stories you read together, favorite times you had. Pull a theme from the fragments and create a cloud dedicated to her.  
• Put together a photo slideshow. Bonus if you have some really stellar prom pictures circa 1963 of mama sporting a beehive. 
• Write out some of the best advice she's ever given you. Set it to her favorite song. Thank her at the end. For helping you grow into a nice person who stealthily avoids speeding tickets. 
• Pull together memories from your favorite adventure with her and send her a cloud featuring Dusseldorf 1992 and your really bad hair. 
• Think about the everyday things she did for you. Did she take you to school on the bus each day? Did she make you your favorite sandwich on Fridays? Did she prod you to make your bed, turning you into a tidy and hygienic adult? (Girls dig that, you know.) Turn your favorite motherly ritual into a cloud. 
• Does she love brunch? Make a cloud full of her favorite breakfast items and go heavy on the bacon. Bonus points for arranging to cook her the cloud brunch - or sending her a gift certificate to her favorite morning spot. 

If you make your mom a cloud, share it with us. We'd love to see the mothers of tumblecloud. 

tumble take: President Obama Endorses Gay Marriage

To which we say...finally. Not that your relationship needs approval from a president or political party, but when you're in a minority facing very vocal opposition, it does make life easier if the leader of the free world says, "Sure. That's cool."*

* Paraphrased. Here's a more official version: Obama Endorses Same Sex Marriages - Washington Post

Why anyone would want to deny two people who love each other and maybe want to raise a family or some chickens the opportunity to give that commitment a legal stamp baffles us. Because we're all just humans bouncing around on this planet and anything that can be done to allow more love into the mix is a win.

We say bravo to gay marriage. 

So does Hillary Clinton, apparently: 

tumblecloud tips for a memorable Cinco de Mayo.

We're not sold on Cinco de Mayo's status as an official holiday, but there's no reason a heavy spackling of tequila and guacamole needs to be official. 

Our Official Tips For An Unofficial Holiday

Make a margarita. 

Consume with friends while posing for pictures in questionably authentic straw hats from a major restaurant chain that serves fajitas. 

Decide you need guacamole. 

Locate and devour guacamole. 

Decorate a renegade avocado with a homemade mustache. Because the avocado's on the lam, thanks to the terrifying prospect of being mashed up with lime juice and consumed by heathens with tortilla chips. 

Take photo of Avocado, Incognito. 

Switch to straight tequila. 

Imitate Frito Bandito in an alarming display of cultural insensitivity. Decide your leprechaun impression on St. Patrick's Day was worse. 

More tequila. More pictures. 

Wake up the next morning, festooned in crumbs and cats and smelling like a bar floor.  

Stumble home, clutching an avocado that looks vaguely familiar. Wonder about the mustache. 

Drag all your pictures into a cloud. Invite your friends to join you. Vow they won't be left with a wicked hangover after this particular stunt. Keep vow. Feel proud.