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17 April 2008 Well, I think I've waited the allotted amount of months before updating my journal here, so I guess I should let you know what's been happening. It's been busy...I mean it's been busy. It's pretty incredible...the amounts of free time to DO NOT have anymore when you bring a kiddo into the world. It's all been good though. It's been real good. She's healthy and growing and beautiful. Glenda and I have truly been blessed. The last couple of months have seen me playing some acoustic stuff. I apologize for not getting it all on the calendar, but some things were just last minute and there wasn't enough time to get them there. One event that WAS on the calendar, back in February, was the Andrew Ivicic Scholarship fundraiser in Burnet. I don't know if you remember or not...some of you "Tazmaniacs" will I know...but we played a club called Taz Country in Pflugerville quite a bit. Randy Ivicic was the manager there and it was his son, Andrew, who was killed in a motorcycle accident back a couple of years ago. Last year they had a scholarship given in his memory and this year they wanted to give more so they put on this event. It was great fun to be a part of. There were several bands there that played and I was the only one by myself...lol. I did about a 45 minute acoustic set and then got up later with a band called Somewhere In Texas. I've known all those guys for a long time...they used to play at Taz too. It was an awesome feelin' to play with a band again. It felt just perfect. You know, another cool thing about that evening was seeing a couple of old friends from Bo's Barn in Salado. Dorothy and Allen Persky came up for the evening and it was sure nice to see them after all this time. We had a chance to visit, which was neat, and I was sure glad to see them! Glenda and Lizzie were there. Yep...3 weeks old and at her first gig! It was pretty cool, she slept through most of it. It was held in a gym and there was a weight room behind the stage so there was a place to go and get out of the way if need be. It was a pretty cool thing seein' Glenda out there while I was playin'...holdin' the baby and dancin'. I was definitely a proud hubby and papa. Speakin' of the two of them, Glenda just brought her in and it's kinda hard to type and hold her at the same time. I tried puttin' her in the little seat thingy here by my desk, but that didn't work. She's probably hungry and ready to eat. How about I put a couple of pics here since I can kinda do that with the mouse...lol
Yep, she's a cutie...she's also hungry. We're gonna go take care of that. Thanks for stoppin' by and I mean that...I really mean that. Check the calendar and come see me when you can. I'll have more information about those dates soon.
13 February 2008 I don't have just whole lot of time this morning because I'm running late. I'm running late because my schedule has been so screwed up the last two weeks it's not even funny. It's a good thing though...a really good thing. See, on January 31st, Glenda and I became parents for the first time in our lives. It is a pretty neat deal. Glenda did so awesome that night in bringing our little girl into the world. I didn't feel like I contributed a whole lot to the birthing process, but she says I was great so I guess I did okay. It was nothing short of amazing. I wished I had more time to write and tell you more about this awesome time in my life, but I just don't. I gotta hit the road for work. I did wanna leave a pic for ya. Leslie Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hartman
14 January 2008 My New Year's gift to you! Yes, another stunning and monumental visit, by me, to my own website to actually update you with things that have been goin' on over the last six months. Absolutely nothing music-wise but plenty otherwise. Let's see where were we. I think the last entry I did had something to do with tornadoes touchin' down and all that stuff. Well, I guess not much has changed in that aspect either because it sure looked like a tornado had hit this place over and over again. Geez what a mess. What with tryin' to get Grandma's house finished and tryin' to maintain some sort of order in the house we are livin' in while workin' on Grandma's...my Lord we dropped the ball somewhere. Good news is that we made it! We actually made the move into Grandma's house the DAY BEFORE we had my ENTIRE family here to enjoy the Hartman Christmas. Yup, that's the truth. We spent our first nite here on the 22nd and had 35 people here on the 23rd. We weren't all the way moved in...still really aren't because we have a bunch of stuff over at the other house...but we made it happen in time for my family to have Christmas back at Grandma's house for the first time in 20 years. Was it special? You better bet your a@# it was. No two ways about it. As for me, I have spent the last ten days laid up in the house trying to get over a surgery that I had. After so many years of dealing with sinus infections and throat hurtin' and all that crap, I finally bit the bullet and went to and ENT doc. I wasn't in the exam room for two minutes before he set me straight on what had to happen. I had a deviated septum so that had to be fixed. My tonsils were HUGE and one was bigger than the other. It had to be fixed so that's what I did. I figured the cuttin' on my nose would hurt the most. Nope...not even close to the pain I felt from takin' the tonsils out. They did the surgery on a Thursday and the following Monday and Tuesday I'm up and movin' around thinkin' that this whole thing is a walk in the park. I'm feelin' great, no problems. Next day...Wednesday...found me laid up whinin' like a baby because it hurt so bad. OH MY GOD! I couldn't believe how much it was hurtin'. Not just my throat but my ears too. Turns out all that stuff is connected somehow or another...nerve-wise...so everything was gonna hurt no matter what. I kept up with the pain meds...they had me on the good stuff...hydro-codone 7.5mg...woohooo! Bad thing about it is that I kept tryin' to eat stuff but I couldn't it hurt so bad. Sooner or later my stomach started growlin' and crampin' and everything else. I'm thinkin' it was because of the meds...they gave me liquid meds so I wouldn't have to swallow the horse-pill and I think it finally just upset my stomach enough that IT was hurtin' too!!! Saturday was my mother in law's B-day dinner in Austin, so I really need to go to that. I'm feelin' decent when we leave but that goes down hill as the day goes on. I finally decide that I have got to quit takin' the meds cause I need my stomach to get back to normal so I can eat. Did I mention that I'm really sick of soup by this time? Here we are at TGI Friday's and I can't even look at the menu because all I can really eat is soup. That sucks...lol. I made it through the dinner and I was really glad that I went. I wouldn't have wanted to miss that at all...honestly. I just couldn't wait to get home. Glenda stopped at a store and got me some stuff to hopefully help settle my stomach so I took that and fell asleep. Sunday I started feelin' a lot better. I'm sure glad for that. As I type this I have been off the pain meds for almost 40 hours...or "clean and sober" as I like to call it...and I actually feel as though I am on the road to recovery. I hope that I am because I'm sure sick of feelin' sick. I am truly wishing that the end result of all this will be a much easier time of things. I'm hopin' that I don't have to deal with all the "feelin' cruddy" that I've dealt with for so long. I hope that my voice improves because I'll be able to breathe better when I sing and what-not. I don't know that it's gonna change it or anything. The doc said that, if anything, it'll give me more resonance. Resonance is a good thing! I can't wait till the pain really all goes away and I can try singin'. I have an acoustic gig comin' up this weekend in Belton...lol...I hope it's good by then. Talk about cuttin' it close. I seem to have established that pattern somewhere. The whole reason I chose to do the surgery when I did is so that it would be AFTER we got in the house and had Christmas here. It would also be BEFORE the baby got here. The what? Huh? Yes...in about 2 or 3 weeks I will be a daddy for the first time. I know I should have said something about it sooner, but I kept putting it off because I wanted to make sure that we told everybody we thought we needed to tell personally before I put it up here on the web site for the whole world to see. Bad thing about it is that I have still probably forgotten folks that I wanted to tell personally. Glenda and I have wanted to start a family for a long time. We just...let me stop right there...maybe it was more "I" than "we"...weren't too sure how we were gonna handle everything. We were livin' in a dump of a house with no room. (I say that and that's the house that I was raised in...but that was a few years ago) I always wanted to be in this house before we had and kids. It was just takin' so long to get that done. We talked about it and talked about it. Finally we decided to try. It took a little longer than we thought it would, but we finally ended up pregnant. My life is gonna change in a way that I never thought possible. I know that for a fact, I just have no idea of knowing exactly what it's gonna be like until it happens. Glenda is due on the 31st of January. She had been doing so well with all this. She's as beautiful as ever and just about ready to pop. I know she'll be glad to have the baby here too. Now, for the questions that I'm sure you're asking... Yes, we know what it's gonna be... Yes, we know what we're gonna name it.... No, I'm not tellin' you now. HeHeHeHe Did you really think that I would not give you a reason to check back here later to find out more? C'mon...you know me better than that don'tcha? Till next time...thank you for hangin' in there with me and I hope that you will continue to do so until I get this new music that I've been workin' on out to you. It'll happen soon I think. It's time! Talk to ya soon~ Les
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