This was an amazing year. I’m having a hard time believing I’m sitting here again already, already working on my new content to release at Vault 713 at midnight, already marking dates on my calendar that end in 2012 instead of 2011. I feel like I was only moving into this apartment yesterday, when really it was over a year ago. Has it really, really been a year? The funny thing about New Years Eve for me is that I never think about...

I love Christmas music. I always have. Other people get sick of it or hate the songs, but I just love them. I love how each song makes me think of Christmases past, of all the good happy times that come with the holiday season. This year, though, every time I’ve heard “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” I’ve been in tears. Last year was my first ever – and I mean ever,  in the then-almost-23 years I’d been...