Author: Leslie
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Los Rodriguez health kick!
Today Javi and I are starting a new diet that goes along with our 90 day adventure with P90X. Javi and I spent the whole weekend scheming about our new daily menus – it might as well have been our first ever trip to Trader Joes because we didn’t buy many of our usual foods.…
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Google+ Hangout Happy Hour
I signed up for google+ around the same time that we started this blog and at the time I really thought google+ would take off. Everyone was talking about it and how it was going to be this big challenge to Team Facebook…and then the hype was over and we all went back to hitting…
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Just a good day
Sometimes, all I need is just one good day. Yesterday, Javi and I had a productive morning (woke up at 5AM!) and it was a beautiful day with pretty decent weather. I got to spend the morning reading in my office with the pups keeping me company on the couch. They were basically begging me…
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Super bowls of nachos, ceviche, ice cream…
Javi and I just wrapped up our first successful Super Bowl gathering at the Los Rodriguez mansion! We didn’t have a ton of people over, but we definitely had enough food for 50 and we had a fabulous time with the friends who came! We basically had a Latino food buffet going on: I made…
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Is spring springing?
So we all know that I’m a winter person and that I’d always, hands down, pick a long winter over a long summer. I hate the insects, sweat and unbearable heat, among other things, that come with the dog days of summer. In Nashville, the “dog days” pretty much last for 4 straight months –…
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Sick day smoothie
Uggggggh I’m sick. It started coming on on Monday night, by Tuesday I was definitely under the weather but I thought it was a little cold so I wasn’t too worried about it. On Wednesday morning I woke up and my throat felt like it was on fire…I had to brace myself every time I…
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Adventure Science Center
This past weekend, Javi and I went to the Adventure Science Center to check out a new bilingual exhibit called Cyberchase. We wrote a review of the exhibit for HispanicNashville.com, which you can read here. We loved the Science Center and can’t believe this is the first time we’ve ever been. We didn’t allot enough…
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Our gigantic pantry / doggo play room
So with the whole office transformation came a few hitches that we had to solve…like where on earth were we going to put two dressers, a mattress and box spring and a wing back chair and recliner. So we took stock of what we wanted to sell (…which only turned out to be the old…
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Los Rodriguez Office!
So here it is…our beautiful new office! We’ve already told you about the bookshelves, desks and magnetic paint. Here are a few more details about the work we put into this little cozy corner of the house.My original inspiration for the dark blue color came from a Valspar historic colors brochure Javi and I got…
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DIY Magnetic Keyboard
We have had dozens of fun home improvement / DIY projects going on in the last couple days, which partly explains our absence from posting. We’ve been so busy making our house incredible that it’s become too much of a task to put all of the transformation into one post – there’s literally too much…
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DIY date night
Last Saturday I told Javier I wanted to go out just me and him on a date the following Saturday (as in, last night) since it was our first chance to take advantage of a few gift certificates that my dentist (…for a referral) and Javier’s coworker gave us for Christmas. My dentist sent us…
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Now it’s just us…
Well, the house is now pretty empty. It’s back to just the 4 of us – Javi and me and the pupsters. Yesterday was the first day in a month that I came home to an empty house (with the exception of the doggos) – no Paula knitting on the couch, no Mery crocheting by…
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The first Santiago
I have traveled to two Santiagos: Santiago, Chile and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The first Santiago I went to, the one that started me along the strange path that eventually led to an interest in Brazil, Portuguese, Latin America, a handsome Chilean, Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt and finally Sociology at Vanderbilt, was Santiago de…
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Wall of Frames
One of our little decorating projects that we did along with the painting before Javier’s family arrived was putting up photos on the walls. If you can remember how our living room was before the transformation (what a nightmare…), we had zero decorations on the walls. After we painted everything looked much better, but the walls…
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Cowboys and Huasos
Yesterday Javi and I spent the day as tourists in our own city. We went to Room in the Inn for a couple hours to do a tour of the new building – Macarena is a social worker in Chile and was hoping to take some of the ideas from RITI back to Santiago. It’s…
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Falta Poco!
We spent yet another great day with the Rodriguez family – we only have a few more left! We are all currently listening to Amalia Rodrigues (Fado…beautiful folk music from Portugal) and recovering from our evening at the Village Pub. I had another really fun show tonight at the VP and their front porch was…
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Paula’s Cuellos (neck warmers)!
Our house has literally turned into a knitting / crocheting factory – Paula has been working like a madwoman on her neck warmers that she is selling ($20 for adult size, $15 for kid size), her mom started up another crocheting project for me and Javier and Cora and I joined the fun and bought…
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New Years Fiesta!
Our night was simple and hilarious. Maca spent the whole day cutting out pictures of things we like from magazines for our photobooth backdrop – pictures of things like snow, dogs, lights, food, people laughing, etc. She also made little signs that said “Rodriguez McClure,” “amor hope paz” and “Feliz año nuevo.” We spent most…
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Our year in review
I cannot believe it’s already 2012. This year flew by – and so much happened this year to make it by far one of the best. Here’s a little review of the Los Rodriguez Life in 2011: three days before the new year in 2010, we came home with Chupete Javi and I went to California to see Chile…
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ceviche, yarn and basquetbol
I told you all Paula spoils us – last night in addition to making 3 pans full of pastel de choclo, she also made a serving of ceviche big enough for 10 people and MORE for lunch today. It sat all night long marinating in lemon juice and it was fabulous. I’ll put the recipe…
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