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Chupete and Choripan’s Nightmare before Christmas
Our poor puppies. They are completely drained after Friday night’s “adventure.” Nuestros pobres cachorros. Estan completamentedestrozados despues de nuestra “aventura” del Viernes. It all started out in the afternoon when Javi got off work early. The Christmas Parade was going on Friday night downtown where he works and his office got out early so they…
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The Good and Bad Stress of December
December…Oh December…We are so excited to have it here, but it will take a couple of weeks until we can really love it. Diciembre…oh Diciembre…Estamos muy felices de tenerte aqui, pero no sera hasta un par de semanas que te vamos a querer. Don’t get us wrong, its Christmas season! We put up the tree,…
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Education Movement Music – I.C.Will
High quality education brightens the future of any child, but how do we keep kids focused on their education? Is this the responsibility of the kids, parents, teachers, government or everybody? It’s a pretty complex issue – as Leslie reminds me every time she comes home from her class on the sociology of education. Our…
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How to help the economy and be a conscious consumer
Leslie and I always talk about how we would like to start up our own small business someday. We have had plenty of ideas; from a bar to a coffee shop to a vintage/art/crafts store to a restaurant to a t-shirt truck…and a few more. Since we are not ready to embark on such an…
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The Dog Spot needs YOUR help!
The Dog Spot has become our favorite place to take our dogs when we need a place to take care of them. Check out our previous post about this great place. We really love this local business and love that the people who run it are passionate about what they do. We feel that for…
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A Very McClure Thanksgiving
A couple of my friends mentioned that Thanksgiving is their favorite time of the year because it kicks off the holiday season, and I agree wholeheartedly. Thanksgiving is great because you get to see your family, take off of work / school for a few days, and you know there is still a month to…
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Happy Thanksgiving – and a 1944 Thanksgiving letter
Oh my. I’m more full than I expected. I thought my mom’s Sunday meals were preparing me for Thanksgiving, but I ate maybe 15 helpings of food. Javi couldn’t handle it…He’s been passed out on the couch for about 2 hours. Uff. Estoy mas llena de los que esperaba. Pense que las comidas de mama…
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
The latest edition of our we-love-East-Nashville-and-local-stuff series is dedicated to Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. It’s located right next to the Silly Goose off of Eastland – and it really is splendid. They have ice cream flavors you’ve never been able to find but always wanted to try: salty caramel, Bangkok peanut (I think this one…
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Decorating for Christmas: final touches
Javi and I JUST finished decorating. I think. You didn’t really think I’d make that much of a fuss about Christmas and decorating and then just throw up a tree and put some lights on it did you? It didn’t even have ornaments on it!! Javi y yo RECIEN terminamos de decorar. Creo. No creian…
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Our pupsters and their new tricks
We wanted to post a quick video on this lovely Saturday afternoon of Chupete and Choripan showing off their new tricks. Chupete’s latest one is “up!” – he gets up on his hind legs and hops around for a bit for his treat. We are hoping he’ll eventually be steady on his hind legs, but…
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Last Sunday, and why I decorated early
So yes, where was I? Sunday. Right.On Sunday, I spent most of the morning / afternoon working with Samantha again on our paper, so we’ll skip right ahead to where the fun stuff happens (unless you really want to hear about our data analysis…[results available upon request]). On Sunday afternoon, Javi and I went…
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Epic Show Flier
UPDATED VERSION BELOW!!! So last night I asked Javier to make me a flier for my next show at Puckett’s on December 23. I wanted a flier similar to the banner on this blog – a stick figure or some similar drawing so I wouldn’t have to use a photo of me singing like I…
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The Family Wash!
In our previous post, Leslie forgot to mention our Saturday night dinner at The Family Wash. The Family Wash is another great place in East Nashville, with a cool atmosphere, good beer and AMAZING Shepherd’s Pie!!! En el post anterior sobre el fin de semana, Leslie se olvido de mencionar nuestra cena el Sabado en…
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an End-of-Semester kind of weekend
Last weekend was about as perfect as a weekend can get. I’m closing in on the end of the semester and I can almost see the light at the end of an extremely long, dark and unforgiving tunnel of academia. Ok – it’s not really all that bad. In fact, I feel pretty good about…
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Pied Piper eatery!
So to continue on the thread of South Inglewood being awesome….We thought we’d write about our favorite, truly local restaurant: The Pied Piper Eatery! Para continuar con la serie de post diciendo lo genial que el South Inglewood…..Pensamos que seria bueno escribir sobre nuestro autentico restaurant local favorito: The Pied Piper Eatery! This is the…
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Our local OMG
I know I know – Javi and I keep going on and on about our neighborhood and how awesome it is but really, I do think we uncovered the coolest corner of Nashville when we moved to South Inglewood. Maybe it wasn’t always Nashville’s best kept secret, but now that Riverside Village is realizing its…
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Annual Jacobs and Mudgett visit!
Last weekend Leslie’s aunt Shelley, uncle John and friends Kellie and Scott came to visit us (as in, John and Annie and Joan and me and Leslie) in Nashville. Their trip to Nashville is turning into a yearly tradition (we’re working on bi-annual), and we love to see them here since we haven’t been able…
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The Silly Goose – El Ganso Tonto
Every time we go to a restaurant in East Nashville we come out and think: “I love to live on this side of town. It’s so crazy that we never came here before moving”. One of our first restaurant adventures on this side of town, before we moved here, was thanks to our friend Michael…
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Cazuela! – Chilean Food
Cazuela is a typical Chilean dish that is the perfect meal on a cold day. It’s a chicken soup, but it’s so much more than that. Javier first made cazuela for me when we were dating in 2008. He was trying to introduce me to different Chilean foods, but in America it’s hard to find…
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