Author: Leslie
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1 year in the Los Rodriguez Mansion
Javi and I have been in our lovely little house in South Inglewood, East Nashville for a year! We closed on the house last April 1 and moved in little by little over the next month. A week after we signed on the house Javi and I drove down to visit my aunt Jane and…
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East C.A.N. Adoptables
Anyone out there looking for an adorable, sweet, out-of-the-puppy-stage doggo? Check out these adoptable dogs below from East C.A.N. (Community Action Network). East CAN is an invaluable organization for East Nashville. Part of what they do is find foster homes and eventually permanent homes for abandoned dogs in the area. They are also enormously helpful…
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Support for NPR brought to you by… // Apoye la radio publica, traido a ustedes por…
Javier and I are now sustaining members of our local NPR member station, WPLN Nashville Public Radio. After listening through several pledge seasons on NPR without ever actually donating, we decided it was time to make up for lost pledge opportunities and make a pledge for monthly withdrawals in 2012. Javi and I prefer to…
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A few healthy meal ideas! / Recetas saludables!
Our diet has changed drastically since February 13 when we decided to follow the P90X nutrition plan in addition to doing the workouts. It’s hard to believe that we were posting about eating nachos and pigs in a blanket only a few weeks prior to making changes. For me, the hardest part of the program…
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Justice for Trayvon – rally in Nashville
Today Javier and I joined hundreds of people at the capitol to rally for justice for Trayvon Martin and others just like him – others like Troy Davis and Emmett Till – others that the U.S. justice system has utterly failed. The rally was amazing – everyone wearing hoodies, carrying bags of skittles and tea…
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Happy Birthday Choripan!!
Yesterday was Choripan’s birthday! It was also national puppy day which is perfect because he was one of the two cutest puppies ever (the other being Chupete, obviously). Choripan was an unplanned puppy – his adoption story is a pretty good one. Last May, Chupete lost his tags while going crazy playing with some other…
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Around the house
Since I posted about the signs of spring popping up all over our yard, we’ve had a variety of plants and flowers sprout and bloom everywhere. The woman who used to live in our house was an avid gardener and luckily for us she planted flowers that don’t need any upkeep or attention from us.…
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It’s not an isolated incident
It’s been almost a month since Trayvon Martin was senselessly murdered in Florida, and it’s high time we said something about it on here. This blog is about our lives, and there’s something to be said about how Javier and I will never, in our lives, experience the kind of fear when it comes to our…
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Might as well be summer in Nashville
It’s barely spring and we’re already acting like it’s summer at the Los Rodriguez mansion. Ever since Javier bought his grill the weather has been consistently in the 80s and I think today it got all the way to 91. Does anyone remember back in February when I mentioned I might be a little bummed…
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Summer prep and other weekend happenings
Over the weekend Javier pretended it was summer. We went to Lowes Saturday morning to buy some spackle to fix something in the office and we left with a brand new charcoal grill and a weed whacker. Javi spent the afternoon assembling his new grill and giving our lawn a much, much needed manicure. This…
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SB2012 and Lulu Mae!
This week is Vanderbilt’s spring break, which in graduate student speak means “spring catch up time” or, if you’re a really good student, “spring get ahead” time. My spring break has been dedicated to the former – catching up on my thesis work so I can finally start analyzing data and writing the damn thing!…
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Choripan to the rescue!
I just had to post this quick video of Choripan trying to rescue Javier from despair. Javi does this thing where he gets on the floor and covers his head and starts fake crying and wherever Choripan is in the house, his ears instantly perk up and he comes running to find Javi, then weasels…
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Vanderbilt Commencement 2010…and 2012
Yesterday my friend Mary sent me a text with a pic of the 2012 Vanderbilt Commencement Handbook – with my picture on the front cover! I’d seen the photo before as the May 2012 photo in the Vanderbilt University calendar but I didn’t realize it would also be published on the commencement handbook. It’s a…
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Nikita’s new pup
Last week my good friend Nikita and her boyfriend Jordan brought home an adorable 12-week-old Shiba Inu pupster. He’s darling and looks a little bit like a fox. Nik and Jordan are still trying to figure out his personality before they name him but I know “Huck” is on the top of Nikita’s list. They still need suggestions…
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Congratulations Camala!
Happy Saturday all! Javi and I wanted to dedicate a quick post to my cousin Andrew’s girlfriend and our friend Camala Rodriguez who took second place last night at the Arnold Classic Fitness International competition last night! Javi and I got our first glimpse into fitness and bodybuilding competitions last night when we watched a…
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Family Scholars
Last weekend when Melissa and Andre brought my great-grandfather’s desk they also brought a few of my granddaddy’s notebooks from his freshman year at Maryville College. I only knew him as…well, a grandaddy! So it’s always really fun for me to see little things like these notebooks to show me what he was like when…
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Doggo Leap Day
It would have bothered me if I didn’t put at least something on the blog on Leap Day since we won’t have another chance until 2016! I haven’t had the chance to write anything all day because I’ve been working on midterm papers* and by the time I finished my self-inflicted work quota for the day I…
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My great grandfather’s desk
This weekend was another crazy weekend – and I haven’t even finished posting about LAST weekend (I still have photos to share from our “welcome home Jason / Brasil carnaval” party)! I am entering midterms week – which is the no. 1 reason our posts have been few and far between and the reason we’re…
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5 things I’ve learned after a week of P90X – Leslie’s list
We are now 8 days into our P90X adventure and 11 days into our new diet! We’ve already learned many, many lessons about what works best for us, and we thought we’d each post a list of 5 things we’ve learned so far. Most of these aren’t meant to be bits of advice or even…
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Deadline
Last Sunday night I had the privilege and pleasure to get up on stage with some of the most jaw-dropping musicians in Nashville to sing some backup on a song called Redeemed. The song is on the soundtrack for the new movie Deadline that just premiered in Nashville on Wednesday and is in theaters now…
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