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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 – Javier’s list
Okay, so yesterday Leslie posted her list of 5 things she’s learned since starting P90Xand the diet that goes with it. Just because we are doing the same diet doesn’t mean the experience is the same for both of us. She’s interested in losing weight, I’m interested in gaining. That makes the diet and exercise…
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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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A homecoming & gala
This weekend was pretty unusual for us in that we were social and went out both nights. The main focus of the weekend was the long-awaited return of our good friend Jason who has been in Afghanistan for the last year serving with the American troops. Jason entered the Center for Latin American Studies at…
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Follow us on Twitter!!
A couple of days ago we realized that we never mentioned anything about our twitter account that we started a few months ago…we’re obviously on top of things. We started @LosRodriguez_ as (yet) another way to share what we are doing – mostly random things, quick pictures or necessarily unnecessary comments…come on people its twitter!…
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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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Nashville and Louisville shirts!
The new Chupete shirts are here! This time we brought back our first design, the Nashville edition, and came up with a new Louisville edition. Both of these places have had a big impact in our lives and we love to finally have our shirts to represent! Las nuevas poleras Chupete están aquí! Esta vez reproducimos el…
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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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The Epic Tale of Tongo and Zongo
In a land far far away, there was one ruler and one ruler only. His name…Chupetongo! En una tierra lejana, donde habia un y solo un emperador solamente. Su nombre….Chupetongo! He had the strongest jaws in Doggoland, capable of turning bone into dust in just seconds. He was the highest jumper, the fastest runner and…
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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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Chupete shirt pre-order….warm weather will be here soon!
By popular demand Chupete shirts are coming back!! This time we will be printing 2 designs. Due to the large amount of people asking us for the Nashville shirt (the first one to come out last year) we will print a few Nashville shirts, and since we like to come up with new designs, the Louisville…
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Seafood soup
Since the weather has been acting up (it is amazingly warm in January), I was afraid that “soup weather” would go away before I could try out a few more recipes! I have been craving “caldillo de marisco” for a long long time (caldillo is a seafood soup very popular in Chile) so I thought…
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A weekend of Puerto Rico
Javi and I just wrapped a terrific weekend spent in the company of Ian and Andrea who came down from Chicago to visit for a few days. We found out they were coming last weekend so it was a great surprise – Ian had a few meetings for work that he managed to schedule on…
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Directly from the Rodriguez’ chest of memories / Fotos del baul de los recuerdos
Last week I received an email from my sister Paula with a bunch of old family pictures that she found in an old chest. Back in Chile we have a ton of pictures that Leslie and I want to bring back to Nashville to digitize. Looking through old pictures is so much fun for us…
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