Ahh… it’s that time of year again when the high school students are about to graduate and enter the workforce or college and the college graduates are about to enter the workforce and will have their lives inevitably changed forever. I love this time of year…I can remember back to my college graduation (which wasn’t too many years ago) how happy I was for it to all be over and that all of my hard work paid off. Here are a few graduation gift ideas to give the  graduates. I found this beautiful poem for a daughter high school graduate that is $11.95 from Amazon.com there is also a lovely one for college graduates male or female that is $11.95. Then you have the traditional graduation bear (I received so many of these at my graduation) it retails for $7.59.  I really like the college graduate poem I may give this to my friend that is graduating this year here is part of the poem below.

As you graduate from college so much hard work and determination have brought you to this point  in your life what was once a dream… is now a dream come true. You invested your heart  in this challenge and have some fun along the way but the road to success was not an easy one..it never is. It was paved with shard turns and steep hills..but you held on to the wheel and kept going. You should be proud of that. Today is the day of celebration….

I have to admit I was not a fan of X-men when the movie first came to the big screen. However; I just saw X-men origins: Wolverine and I have to say this movie was terrific! I used to watch the cartoon series when I was younger and the movie was very true to the original story line. All I can say is good work Marvel entertainment, good work.

I wanted to share a book my friend told me about the other day. It’s called The Story of a Lifetime: A Keepsake of Personal Memoirs. This lovely memoir is an attempt to capture the footprints—not just for the person telling and recording the story but also for his or her family. I love the entire concept of this book I already brought it for my mother for Mother’s day and am thinking about getting one for my grandmother also. I think it would be a great way to have her  life events written down so generations to come can read them. I found the book on Amazon for $37.56 which is cheaper then the other sites I saw it on.

Happy Earth Day!

Off the beaten path..I had an opportunity to see President Obama leaving Long Beach airport yesterday March 19, 2009. I saw him fly in on Marine one and leave on airforce one. I was a very cool experience