MERRY CHRISTMAS from "Sean's Space!"

Heading out for 11 days of Christmas vacation, I wanted to pass along my most heartfelt season's greetings to the thousands of readers, from (literally) all over the world, who've visited "Sean's Space" since I began the blog in March.

"I told you, I don't know where Santa's toy workshop is!"

This is the exact Christmas card I sent out this year. I snapped the pic with Darth Vader and the unidentified stormtrooper at Walt Disney World's Disney-MGM Studios the day after Christmas last year, and had to wait an entire year to send it out to friends and family!

Being on vaca, I likely won't be posting anything until the new year, but feel free to check out some of the other Poughkeepsie Journal blogs we have to offer. Just tell 'em Sean sent ya when visiting their blogs!

Again, thank you to everyone who's come to the blog in the past nine months, reading everything I've posted from Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken and Taylor Hicks, to "Star Wars" (as seen here on my Christmas tree) and "Mary Poppins" and "Sex and the City," among other topics. (I really think having the head of Boba Fett as my tree topper makes the scene complete, don't you?!)

Thanks, too, for the thoughtful comments hundreds of you have left. It's nice to know that people are actually reading — if not enjoying — the stuff I put out there, enough to share their thoughts with the rest of us. (And don't think your kind words on message boards like Taylor Is The Boogie! and Clay's Daily Double, among others, go unnoticed. Yes ... I do check! Thank you.)

I sincerely hope Santa Claus is very good to each of you, and that you find just what you want most this Christmas — both under the tree and in your hearts.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

P.S.: See ya in 'o8!