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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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Easy (inexpensive) DIY book shelves
I mentioned in our last post that I bought a 4 x 8 sheet of MDF and saved the extra material for another project. Well, this is the project…book shelves! Leslie has always wanted a room surrounded with bookshelves full of books…also known as a library. Our new office could not host a full library…
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DIY Inexpensive desks!
Since we wanted to have a new office that we could both use, we needed to have desks for both of us. We would love to have two big old desks with plenty of drawers, leather top, shiny old wood and with a big work area…but those desks usually come with a price tag out…
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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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Our Ferocious Pups
Ok they’re actually quite gentle and sweet (once they calm down and stop jumping up on you to say hello – we’re still working on the “off” command) – but these photos might suggest otherwise if you didn’t know Chupi and Chori. On Sunday we spent the whole day working on bookshelves and painting things…
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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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One step closer to citizenship…
Today I completed one more step towards becoming a US citizen; I had to go in for biometrics in order to renew my green card. The process towards citizenship is slow, somewhat complicated at the beginning, sometimes nerve wracking, and I am just over halfway there!….(I think) Hoy complete un paso mas hacia convertirme en…
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Batteries recharged!…now back to the grind
Our vacation is over. Tomorrow we are going back to work, school and the regular schedule…it’s inevitable, but looking back we had a blast and our “batteries” have been recharged! Nuestras vacacioes han terminado. Manana volvemos al trabajo, las clases, y la rutina regular…es inevitable, pero mirando hacia atras lo pasamos muy bien y nuestras…
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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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