It seems like just yesterday that the above photo was taken… me watching 18-year-old Robby graduate from High School.
And then just two weeks ago…
…Robby graduated from college and moved to Fort Liquordale! Huh? WTF?! Where the @#$% is time going?!
Robby officially became a USF Alumni, and relocated down south with A.J. To celebrate this achievement, he hosted a nearly 8-hour bar crawl that terrorized my liver and checking account sauntered through the hot spots of Ybor City. And to celebrate this very same achievement my way, I will post 5 of My Favorite Things about Robby. Let’s begin:
#1: Paula Deen… I mean, Robby introduced me to his famous McDonalds Apple Pie & Chocolate Ice Cream Sundae concoction-in-a-bowl dessert.
#2: Robby forced me to watch the Game of Thrones Series Recap. After I stopped watching the show during its snoozefest second season, he promised that the current Season 3 was worth watching the show again. A mere 10 minutes of my life and I am officially all caught up on Game of Thrones. Bring on the damn dragons!
#3: Robby watched Madonna’s Truth or Dare documentary and afterwards, remarked that he totally understood why my friends and I act the way we do. (Now that I think about it… was that even a compliment??!)
#4: Robby’s random insightful but hilarious text messages like the one he sent when describing his first impressions of being a new resident to the Fort Lauderdale area. See below:
and last but not least…
As two gigantic music fanatics, Robby and I are constantly trying to introduce new and great songs to one another. The “oh I’ve already heard this before” and the “I’m not really feeling this one” do often pop-up in our conversation. So when a great song is truly introduced to one of us by the other, it becomes a mini-event. When Robby first played “Blood” by The Middle East, I instantly fell head over heels for that song and had to immediately add it to my Current Favorites Playlist on Spotify. To my surprise, the song was already on there. So Robby playing “Blood” wasn’t my virgin time hearing it. I still don’t remember ever adding that song to my playlist. Nor did I ever figure out when exactly I first heard it either. But just like mine and Robby’s close friendship, there really is no explanation for something that was meant to be. Oh and #5: Robby has great taste in music.
Congratulations again to my old soul friend for graduating!
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