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Aiyeshley’s off to D.C.!
Our friend Ashley (not really spelled Aiyeshley – but that’s another story for probably never) is moving to D.C. this week! I still can’t believe she’s leaving – well, it’s very believable that she got a great job and will be happy in D.C. with her boyfriend Dylan, but I can’t believe she won’t be…
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Muttonchops Monday!
This was my first year participating in the annual Muttonchops Monday celebration. My friend Steve educated me about this intriguing event a couple of years ago and I decided I’d try it out for Muttonchops Monday 2012. The celebration takes place every year on the first Monday of Spring. This year I could not join…
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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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Quick chicken recipe! / Facil pollo al horno!
Since we showed some pictures of some of our meals, we wanted to also share our ways of cooking some foods. We don’t have time (and most of the time the energy) to make elaborate meals so in our kitchen the motto is: The simpler the better! Ya que les mostramos algunas fotos de algunas…
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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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Our diet basics / Lo basico de nuestra dieta
Here are some quick tips and ideas about the basic parts of our current diet. In the future we will be sharing some simple recipes (yes, SIMPLE! we are not fancy cooks and normally don’t have the time to cook super produced meals) Aqui van algunos consejos e ideas se las partes basicas de nuestra…
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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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March Madness Doggo-tology!!!!
It’s that time of the year where everyone is a basketball coach, basketball expert, statistician, physical trainer, psychic, mind reader and prophet. Yes….it’s March Madness! For those out of the country or unfamiliar with the term, “March Madness” refers to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament where 68 college teams play for the National Championship during…
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P90X Phase I complete!
Since posting this we also completed P90X Phase II as well! Check it out! Lately we’ve been super busy with school, work, working out and house stuff (nothing exciting – just cleaning, yard work, a couple of small repairs)…which is why our posts are fewer and farther between on the blog. We have had a…
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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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