Tag: Nashville
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Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very bad (just kidding it was awesome) Weekend
What a weekend! Going into it Javi and I didn’t have a ton of stuff planned but boy are we good at filling up our time. On Friday evening Javi and I experimented with making sweet potato chips. Everyone has since told me that it’s really not hard to make anything “chips” but I had…
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2012 TN State Fair!
The recent “drop” in temperature (I think we may permanently be out of the 90s!) and crisper morning air all signal the arrival of my favorite season of the year – fall!! To me, fall is 100x better than spring because I’m spared the horrific pollen allergies (though there’s still the dreaded ragweed) and the temperature…
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Leaving Colorado
On our last day in CO, we spent a restful morning in the cabin at the Cottonwood Hot Springs eating a delicious breakfast that Camala made for us and packing up our suitcases. I wandered down to the river and took some photos and then got Camala and Andrew to join me so I could…
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Los Rodriguez Life on TV!
Back in June we posted about our experience with NPR’s StoryCorps, which was subsequently featured on HispanicNashville.com. Shortly after we showed up on Hispanic Nashville, News Channel 5’s Que Pasa Nashville contacted us about doing a segment on the blog, featuring our trip to StoryCorps. Que Pasa Nashville is a half-hour program that features stories from…
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Bobbie’s Dairy Dip
A couple of nights ago we were all sitting down at the table (and when I say “we” I mean Leslie, her parents, her grandma and me) after a delicious meal – we made pesto again – wondering what we could do to extend the joy of our dinner. At that point, Annie came up…
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Wedding weekend part 1!
Javier and I spent this weekend in major party mode. I think I wore half of the dresses in my closet this weekend with all the fun wedding festivities going on! On Friday and Saturday night we attended two amazing weddings – one in Nashville and the other in Birmingham. This post is part 1…
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Mitchell’s Deli!
Returning to the “our neighborhood rules” series, we wanted to dedicate a post to our favorite deli around. Mitchell’s Deli was the first place Javi and I tried out in Riverside Village when we first moved here. We were in the middle of unpacking and we didn’t have a fridge in the house yet so…
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A busy Memorial Day weekend
This past weekend flew by! It was an extra long weekend for Javi – he only had a half day on Friday and he had Monday off. Even though I don’t technically have an office job, with my master’s thesis looming overhead and ample RA work I definitely don’t feel like I’m off for the…
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The weekend we hosted 6
A few weekends ago Javier and I hosted more people than ever before in our little mansion – all told there were 8 of us sleeping under one roof! Danielle, Gretchen, Sarah, David, Brandon and Chris all came to Nashville for a weekend visit that went by WAY too fast. In case you didn’t catch…
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Riverside Blossom Festival
Back to our series on why Riverside Village and South Inglewood are awesome! It’s been awhile since we posted about our neighborhood – so lest you forget! It’s the best! And here’s another reason why: De vuelta a nuestra serie de posts donde es decimos lo genial que son Riverside Village y South Inglewood. Hace…
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working on that work / life balance
I mentally prepared myself all week to pass the weekend in a state of slight panic and under major stress trying to finish up the semester, but I was pleasantly surprised on Friday when I found myself 2 pages ahead of schedule on my final paper for one of my classes. SO, to celebrate minor…
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Are you a regular?
There are only a few restaurants that truly treat regulars as regulars. Usually the term “regular” is used as a way to make the place more inviting and to encourage you to come back. So far we only know of one place that claims to ONLY accept regulars. You might wonder…no way! Which place doesn’t…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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