new year 2012

after an exhausting november/ december, i had very much decided that i'd forego the striptastic new years experience in favor of a lovely dinner and an evening at home with my private party of one. 

i started the evening at simon with nikka- as always, it was awesome and a fantastic celeb-watching experience. 

i met the maloof's (any real housewives of beverly hills fans out there? adrian is tiny and adorable and the bros are interesting..). 

talked to adrian's husband paul about acquiring jimmer to play for the kings. 

he admitted it was a slam dunk (pun intended). 

then i met a power player at the palms who just happened to have comped 5th row center floor seats to see john legend later that night....

score.

so i changed nikka's plans and off we went to see brother legend with all of the palms people. 

he opened with adele's "rolling in the deep" a capella. hot damn, it was amazing.
the man is a SICK talent. sick.
if you ever get the opportunity, you must go.
we danced our little hearts out and when i come back in my next life,

i'd like to be one of his FIERCE back up singers. killer choreography and insane voices. i live for them!

so there was this one time when JL walked down those stairs pictured above and came right down and sang to me. i don't usually get star struck, but i was into this big time.... but i didn't touch him- for the record- because that's what creeper super fans do ... and i DIDN'T want to be mistaken for that! so i just squealed and we danced together.

then we were whisked upstairs to do the countdown from Moon (which is the perfect nightclub to see all the fireworks from the strip)  where people were paying $250 just to ENTER!
people are stupid.
little johnny legend counted down with his leggy fiance, i got a smooch of the cheek from my sweet friend, Q, and was back in my car and on the way out of the madness by 12:30.

 a glamorous ending to a wild year and a glamorous beginning to a better one!

hope you had a wonderful time too.