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Enjoying all the NaBloPoMo posts. Mostly reading on BlogHer, but will get to the "soup" soon.

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Cookery

11/22/11 11:29pm by belenesq
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I'm not a great cook. I'm not a picky eater, but I prefer simple foods, therefore I only cook simple dishes. Also, I do not cook a lot of meat dishes. So at family events I often contribute appetizers or desserts. This weekend we have four events to attend. I will be making cookies, apple pies, deviled eggs, pickle platter, veggie platter, dip, more cookies, million dollar salad, and pozole. I also ordered tamales. We joke around that I don't so much "cook" as "assemble". Nevertheless, all my dishes come back empty. And no one ever complains that there's not enough.  Read more >

Home

11/21/11 12:24am by belenesq
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I grew up in a small close-knit community. I have a large extended family. I was surrounded by love and good wishes, yet I couldn't wait to go away to college.. I left home at seventeen and between college, marriage, grad school, and work, I lived two to twenty hours away from "home". Of course I still visited a lot, but it wasn't the same as having aunts and cousins just a few blocks away. When my husband and I moved back here eight years ago, I really didn't expect that we would stay this long. I thought we would miss "big city living" and move within a year or two.  Read more >

the foosball

11/19/11 8:21pm by belenesq
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I know just enough about football to follow a game and care only enough to sit through two per year. The Super Bowl is an event because my husband loves it so much and I love to see him enjoying it so I watch, too. Well, I sit in the same room and catch up on magazines and crafting in between glances at the TV and watching the good commercials. The other is the Big Game between my alma mater and our main football rival. Most years it isn't televised so we go to parties where the game is telecast and we get to hang out with friends.  Read more >

I'm back

11/18/11 1:21pm by belenesq
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Had to take little blog-cation, but I'm back now. Belén blogs at escribition.com and tweets at twitter.com/belenesq.  Read more >

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Full Name
Belén Rodríguez
Member Since
August 2008
About Me: 

idealist, wife, aunt, bibliophile, diarist, craft geek, insomniac, list-maker, Mac devoteé, pen junkie

Location: 
California
About Me Tags: 

Trivia

My hobbies (addictions? obsessions?) are reading, journaling, crafting, and learning new stuff.

When I have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, I crave dessert.

I love Scrabble, chocolate cake, symmetry, Christmas music, fountain pens, containers, and fresh-squeezed lemonade.

 

Home

My house is fifteen miles from the beach and just ten miles away from my childhood home, (though I lived far, far away for a long time.) It's small-town America, where downtown is a four-block stretch of Main Street and there's always room for another beribboned dog in the parade.

 

Creativity

papercrafts (cards/ATCs/postcards)
journals/journaling/correspondence
altered, upcycled & repurposed objects

(See photos on Flickr.)

 

Movies

Juno . 84 Charing Cross Road . The Corpse Bride . Akeelah and the Bee . Walk the Line . Under the Same Moon . Party Girl . Little Miss Sunshine . Volver . Elf . Muriel's Wedding . Eat Drink Man Woman . Mean Girls . Ferris Bueller's Day Off . A Little Princess . Zoot Suit . Truly Madly Deeply . The Big Chill . Bridget Jones's Diary . Pump up the Volume . Office Space . Carbon Copy . The Last Supper . The Ghost and Mrs. Muir . The Big Lebowski . El Mariachi . All About Eve . The Gods Must Be Crazy . Election . When Harry Met Sally . Persuasion . Letter To Three Wives . Clueless . Legally Blonde . My Cousin Vinny . Possession . Monsoon Wedding . Proof . An Angel at My Table . Strictly Ballroom . The Professional . Broadcast News . 300 . The Women

 

Books

I read at least two books a week and way too many magazines. I have To-Be-Read stashes all over the house.

Check out my bookshelves on GoodReads or photos of my actual bookshelves.

I trade books on Swaptree, BookMooch and PaperBackSwap.

 

Fave Quotes

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Es mejor morir de pie que vivir arrodillado." - Emiliano Zapata

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"Everything I eat is Mexican food." - my uncle Leo

"¡Sí se puede!" - United Farm Workers

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Theresa

 

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