With a little free time on my hands I decided to play around with a virtual scrapbooking program, Smilebox…since there’s no way I’ll ever have enough free time for me to make a real scrapbook.

Rather than just post a bunch of pictures as I have with other galleries, I thought I’d put virtual scrapbook pages here in addition to other photographs pertaining to my life. A quick autobiography can be found here, to supplement what you’ll find on this gallery page.

Without further ado, Ally’s gallery!

ABOVE: The early days. In case you can’t read the caption, it says “The O’Sullivans, early 1971, just before we left Tulsa. That’s little Ally in Mum’s arms. Dad will never outlive those pants…”

And as the tagline says, I never felt anything less than loved. With my parents or with Nick. How fortunate I’ve been.

ABOVE: My sister Katie, a sort of “in memoriam” page. As states on the “About Ally” page, she died when she was a child. 6 years old, in fact. The caption here reads “Sister Katie. Born 1973, died 1979 when hit by a car near our home in Kansas City.” In fact, it was about two doors down, and it was the neighbor’s teenaged son who was driving under the influence of LSD. He hit Katie as she crossed the road on her bike. She died immediately on impact, we were told.

Pictured here is also the carving over her grave in Kansas City. My parents buried her there because we were all rolling stones with my father’s traveling salesman business; we didn’t have a real “hometown” to take her to. We left Katie in Kansas City and moved on, though my parents still make visits to her grave every few years, and will do until they are too old for the strain of travel, I believe.

ABOVE: A page dedicated to Nick’s and my first chill out vacation, to Cancun. As the caption reads: “Our first real adventure: a vacation in Cancun in 1996. Before that, Nick’s trips were work related. He gave me the opal pendant there.”

I should clarify what I ran out of space to say: prior to Cancun in 1996, Nick’s trips since we got together in 1995 were work related. He traveled for work and pleasure long before meeting me, of course.

The opal pendant referenced (and shown, even though it’s not very easy to see in the picture) is explained in this post.

All the photos shown in thumbnails on the film strip were taken by Nick, except the one of the two of us, which was courtesy of a fellow tourist. And before you ask - no - he didn’t dye his hair green; his hair bleaches easily in the sun, since it’s very blonde to begin with. In that lighting, the hue looks rather off. The tan’s dashing, though…

ABOVE: A glimpse of our life together in Tacoma, where we lived from when we moved in together in 1995 to his disappearance, after which I bought the condo here in Seattle. The thumbnail photos in the filmstrip are our townhouse (as shown in the larger picture), the restaurant where I worked & where we met, Jenn’s apartment building (we spent a lot of time over there hanging out), and the Pantages Theater, one of our favorite nights out.

Watch this space for more photos!

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