Starting this Saturday: Hidden Village Music Festival 2014

 

It's almost here!  This Saturday!  Here is the line-up:

 Day 1: The Shiz (alt blues rock)
Day 2: Arborea (world music)
Day 3: Howlin' Brothers (alt bluegrass)
Day 4: The Farewell Drifters (americana)
Day 5: Christopher Paul Stelling (troubadour)
Day 6: The Sawmill Vagrants (old time folk music)
Day 7: Danielle Grubb (experimental jazz rock)
Day 8: Social Bliss (punk rock) & Terra Alive + Otonana TRIO (japanese rock and roll)
Day 9: Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons (just joe this time) + Friendly People (folk infused indie rock awesome)
Day 10: Engine (folk rock)

This festival has something for everyone, $5 at the door, $30 for a 10 day pass!!! 

For more information: www.hiddenvillagemusic.com 
 

Disclaimer: I am the official blogger for the Hidden Village Music Festival 2014 mainly because DH has an ownership stake in Standpipe Coffeehouse.  So I can name myself official blogger and who will fight me on it? 

Draw the Line

This song says so much about me, my friends, and why we feel the things we do and the way we do them are important. It's great work from an unsung master of Punk Rock, and I figured it was high time it had a video.

#Mamavation Monday: Wheat is now my enemy

So the saga of wheat in New Orleans ends with me being super sick and swearing wheat off for life, like forever.

After my last Mamavation post, I went to the doctor and got some bad health news.  My blood sugar was 120 after a 12-hours fast.  That is so not good, like a few more points and I would have been pre- diabetic.  My blood pressure was up.  My weight was up 5 lbs!  In general my usually healthy wheat-free self was trying to cleanse itself and as a result I was going through the wringer.

One comment I did not expect to hear was that I was gluten intolerant.  Now before you jump, I went wheat-free for my daughter. I was nursing and when I ate wheat she broke out.  I never when wheat-free for myself or even for DH who also has a wheat allergy.  Why was this shocking?  Well I think in the back of my mind I was thought of being wheat free as an optional piece of my life.  I could go back to eating like a "normal" person at some point.  This experience has taught me that is not the case.  I need to not only be wheat free but gluten free; I wasn't expecting that.  How did we go from a household with two wheat allergy sufferers to where everyone has some wheat issue?

I am finally feeling better.  I had some tests run today and I'm waiting for results.  I suspect my blood sugar is back to normal.  My blood pressure is back to normal.  I've lost all 5lbs.  My thirst is back to normal and my energy level is returning.  Lesson learned, stay away from wheat!