Oh, hello.

My new job requires much mousing and cropping and posting to the Internet -- which definitely compromises hometime mousing and cropping and posting to the Internet.

Thus I am a little late with Jess's birthday pictures from two weeks back.

Happy belated birthday pictures, Jess!

With love, from Allisson.

No, we did not bear witness to Britney Spears' marriage.

No, we did not ring in 2004 with Ben and J Lo.

And no, we did not spend our weekend finding out all about The Simple Life.

(Can you believe it?)

But we did manage, despite many a missed celebrity encounter, to have a hell of a fun time in Vegas on New Year's Eve.

We danced,
We drank champagne,
We wore hats,
We were glad to be alive.
And then, when it was all over, we rode a really scary rollercoaster.

Who can complain?