Flawless babble from the single most important human being ever to walk the earth.
Slowly becoming more comfortable with who I am now, enabling others to slowly accept that I’ll never be THAT Jorge again.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I laughed, she cried…
Tara and I have been living (sort of) at the same apartment complex for two years now. The first year had not been entirely thrilling, but decent enough for us to accept a second year when they offered a month without rent in order to have us renew. The second year served as a vivid reminder that it is not always best to follow the savings. Our A/C repeatedly broke more often than it worked, and the property managers were obnoxiously uncaring and slow to send help. Our dishwasher and washing machine both started flooding within 24 hours of each other, and then a few days later, stopped working altogether. It wasn’t much longer after that when my wife and I arrived at home to one of the most horrendous smells. That was how we learned the refrigerator had broken. It was almost as if our apartment was begging us to get out,
Avoiding Collections?
Me: Hi, this is Jorge from Lake Ridge Eye Care, calling for Keisha.
Her: I don't know any Keisha.
Me: Keisha [last name]?
Her: Yes, I don't know who that is. Stop calling here for her.
Me: Um...ok. Are you sure? I just wanted to tell her that her frames have arrived.
Her: Oh...hold on...KEISHA! Phone for you!
Hashtag #NeverForget
During the month leading up to the Dallas Cowboys’ final regular season in Texas Stadium, ESPN Radio was giving away season tickets once a day.
I had a deal with my friend, Ryan, that every time one of us heard the queue on the radio to call in, we would alert the other. If one of us won as a result, we would split the tickets. I also had my wife (then, fiance) helping me out. I gave her the number to the station’s prize hotline, telling her, “If I ever call you and the only thing I say is, ‘Call the number!’ and then I hang up, this is the number I want you to call.”
But still, I knew it was a long shot. I wasn’t getting my hopes up.
Yeah, my eyes watered a little…so shoot me.
One of my best friends (Ryan H) once defined my personality so perfectly, even I felt like I knew myself better after I heard it. While trying to describe me to his girlfriend before we had met, he told her, “The thing about Jorge is: whenever he decides to care about something, he cares about it obsessively, regardless of how significant it actually is.”
After he told me what he had said, I shook my head in amazement. “Huh…..that IS true.”
It was sort of a compliment AND a criticism, packaged into one perfectly stated sentence. And he’s right.
I once got in a fight in 4th grade because I didn’t like the way one of my classmates was using the monkey bars. No joke.
I seriously cannot stop watching this absolutely brilliant commercial by Volkswagon. On all likelihood, this will be one of the most memorable ads of the Super Bowl.
