I'm laying on the couch, wearing fuzzy red and white socks. In my peripheral vision is a giant, lit up क्रिस्मस tree. This is my प्रिय time of year. Hands down. I just got back to Nashville this morning after being in LA all week. Today I was out and about and in the studio all day, and when I drove home, I saw this strip of restaurants on Main सड़क, स्ट्रीट in my hometown.. I've driven that road and seen those restaurants four billion times since we moved here almost six years ago. Somehow they've never looked as perfect and welcoming as they did tonight. It was Sunday night and there were cars jammed into every last parking spot available. I could see the smoke billowing out of fireplace chimneys into cold winter air. It's the holidays. People are coming together and going out for रात का खाना and something about seeing that just stuck with me. I प्यार everything about this time of year, but mostly the way that people find ways to be with the ones they love. And I प्यार sweaters. Everyone is wearing sweaters right now.
I was talking to my producer, Nathan, today about everything that's happened this year. We were being nostalgic and going back to this time four years ago, three years ago, two years ago.. Now this year. We just.. can't believe it. Earlier this week, he had a last-minute-get-over-here-right-now-and-celebrate party at his house, because the news had just broken: We were nominated for 8 Grammy's. I remember calling him and hearing the screaming voices of the ढंढोरची, ढोलकिया and the बास player and the mixers and publishers who helped put this album together. He put me on speakerphone, and we all screamed together. I couldn't stop saying "I प्यार you" to them, just like I can't stop saying "I प्यार you" to you. Part of me can't fully लपेटें my mind around the idea that this sort of thing could happen to me. At the end of the phone call, I कहा to them "Please, never forget tonight. This night is a gift we never thought we'd get." and then, of course, "I प्यार आप so much!!!"
I'm about to be in New York City at क्रिस्मस time. I'm playing the Z100 Jingle Ball (never played it before. SO excited!!) and probably spending some time just wandering around looking up at the sparkly store displays and stuff. And counting down to my birthday. I'm only a teenager for another week! I'm starting to practice saying "Twenty" when people ask me how old I am. Weird. Cool? I guess it's inevitable, so.. Awesome! Thank आप again for everything आप guys have done to make all of these magical things happen to me. Please drive safely when you're out shopping. I hope आप have an awesome holiday season. Again, I प्यार you!
lovelovelove -T
