Hooray! Great news everyone! I just won the Ourstage Monthly Song Competition for the month of February! The prize was $5000!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to go through the judging process! You made it happen...and I'm EXTREMELY grateful. I hope they pay me in 5000 singles so I can roll around in it on my bed. Hahaha!

Also, it's not too late to cast your vote for my song "Fall into You" to help me win an Independent Music Award. To the right ---> you will see a widget to vote. You have to sign up for this...but it takes only a few seconds to do so. It would be insane to win another song contest because of my fans!

I held the first official "Bean Party" (aka my live streaming show). Anthony Fiumano was my first guest and he knocked everyone's socks off. Anthony is doing a fan-funded album via a fundraising site called KickStarter. The thing is he has to raise $5000 and if he doesn't raise that much he loses everything that was donated. He only has a month left!!! I am going to be giving him a big push with some of the prize money I won, but I want to make sure that all my friends know about him and that even $10 will help make his dreams come true. Yes, sounds cheesy, but it's totally true! Click here to help him out!

You are kind and generous and a good snuggler. Tata for now!

=O) Amanda