51. CONTAINS SPOILERS

Cupcakes make me happy (:
this news, however does not:
So, my friends, and fellow bloggers, your adored blogger, Valerie, (also known affectionately as VALUHREE) has made herself out to be an idiot. By misusing grammar in an email to her highly regarded english teacher. NBD, or at least i'm not admitting so. Not Yet.


Slightly more prevalent is the awesomeness that is inception. Mind=Blown.

Well I apologize for my slightly shortened post this evening, but i'm so sleep deprived that i can't think straight, trust me i just tried to have a cohesive conversation with my father and best friend.

Fried,
Valerie.

xoxo


P.S. Oh wow, i completely forgot: i started and finished a book today, Diary by my favorite Chuck Palahniuk. He sort of is like the really raw and twisted voice in the back of everyones head... the same place the lice like to lay their eggs.
So as a tribute to Mr. Palahniuk here are some of my favorite quotes from the book plus me taking a picture with the beat down library version.
"Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness" (Palahniuk 65).
"Everything you do shows your hand" (137).
"The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will" (198).



I will use these quotes later, they kind of are inspiring but dreadful at the same time, like a heart wrenching movie where the protagonist dies, dies heroically and still inspired others. (SPOILER!) Like Owen Meany.

So this is more of a thought entry, I have a book review to post from Valerie's summer reading list (Diary) and a new Me Vocab list, yeah i do. I won't be doing any reflections on summer reading books for school because 1. i don't want to spoil it, and 2. i'll have to do many more reflections later on, anyway.

So now that we are on about P.S.S.S.S.S. or something of the like, i'd just like to point out the character of old things, i like them so much. I'd rather get used books off amazon, or go to the library because someone else held those pages in their hands and felt the same thing, like some how everyone is connected because we read the same version of the same book. And because of this connection, it bridges somemany gaps between time and space and generations. Which is what Palahniuk usually writes about, immortality and the connections between human beings. Makes sense i'm reading a library book, doesn't it then?

But i'll write more about Diary later. I think i'll read invisible monsters if It's kind of a funny story doesn't come in.

Reading List: handwritten in Pretty COLORED PENS!
(yes i realize it's backwards)

50.

Wow, half of a hundred. I apologize for not only the profanity in my last post but the way in which my mood quickly took a turn for the bitter. In retrospect, it seems odd that me, personally interjected my mood into my blog like that. Usually, i am the quiet one, the girl that never admits when something makes her angry or upset, but if you don't know me there are two things that you can not, under any circumstance insult: my weight and my intelligence.
So, it happened. someone who i believe to be a tad arrogant called me an idiot. Something snapped and it did not end well because it was not an isolated incident. This individuals continuing... dejection at the expense of others infuriated me. In a state of lividity there will be casualties, i believe. So i brought in "unrelated" subjects, that *oh no!* made him uncomfortable. He labeled me a martyr and once again others continued to come to his defense. I refuse to rationalize my feelings.

It's done.
and i'm obviously at fault because i'm a drama-queen, right?

49.

I'm so fucking sick of shit. If my "friends" are going to make me feel like shit and attack every aspect of what i say, i don't think i should have
A. valued them as friends in the first place
or B. given them the benefit of the doubt that they can judge me


If all they have to judge my intelligence on is my use of abbreviations, they obviously don't have enough people skills/ enough encounters to gauge one's intelligence.
Enough is enough. Fuck them all, if they don't have what i like to say then they don't deserve to listen. Over it. Done.
Even if one of them is my best friend, her boyfriend is a fucking arrogant asshole that i never want apart of. Chicks before dicks.

If i am going to get abused, i'd rather have been lonely all along.


How i never wished i went to the movies,
Valerie

" I am now evinced of the inexorable dejection within an unspeakable's nature, and i wish to cull it from my life."

How about them apples. bitches.

48.

Howdy, i've decided another random installment to this blog from time to time is "me vocabulary" a list of vocabulary i have to use per week, just so my vocabulary improves. Also points for people telling me they found it in my blog, or if i use it without noticing.
Words found in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for the week of 7/19/10--7/25
• Satiate—to gratify desire/glut someone
• Fortitude--determination
• Dejection—great unhappiness (technical: defecation or excrement)
• Capacious—able to hold out
• Dauntless—unaccustomed to fear
• Inexorable—unstoppable (adamant {set in opinion} and pitiless)
• Solicitude—expressed concern/ something causing concern
• Capitulated—surrender/consent/yield
• Benevolence—kind/charitable
• Gnash—grind teeth
• Culled—remove someone or something as worthless {natural selection}, to select something or someone, or to remove an animal from its herd.
• Evinced—show clearly/reveal
• Paroxysm—sudden outburst of emotion/of symptom
• Fastidious—demanding, easily disgusted
• Intonations—pitch of voice/intoning/accuracy of pitch. The beginning of a Gregorian chant
• Ameliorate--improve
• Rankling—cause bitter feelings
• Penury—poverty
• Reverential—respectful/ deserving of respect
• Caprice—impulsive tendency/sudden change or action
• Vehement—done with conviction/forcefully

So yeah....


random ear-fly.... yeah i really do get bored at work, can't you tell?

bookworming it?
Valerie.

47. HARRY POTTER THEME PARK

As you may, or may not know, after the boughs of lice and black eyes, and utter failures my week got exponentially greater, kind of like the positive side of a parabola. Shooting forward, on Friday my dream came true, or at least my eleven year old self was pacified—I finally made it to Hogwarts… in Universal Islands of Adventure that is. doesn't change that i waited up for my letter for three days in a row on my 11th birthday. :)

Tara, one of my closest friends and I, scooted through the park with high hopes, and almost everything was appeased. Our first stops were of course the magical & magnificent rides, on which sadly I couldn’t take pictures.
There was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which was mainly, for all intensive purposes, was a highly entertaining mash-up of all that is HP in 3D roller coaster style (very similar to the Spiderman ride on marvel island). Inside Hogwarts, the roller coaster starts in the Great Hall, and many decorations of the castle are well represented, but you can discover those on your own. The entrance to this ride is featured above.
A hippogriff rollercoaster, built to pacify yougins and their easily-nauseated parents was a chill ride, and before our ride Tara and I made sure to show our respect in the art of a deep bow, how one must always approach the “proud creature”. Needless to say, the comparatively wimpy ride was only experienced once.

The last of the rollercoaster attractions was at one point the Fire and Ice dragons, if you have been to universal recently. With a newly acquired Harry Potter theme, they have fashioned the recognizable roller coaster into the second test of the tri-wizard cup by calling the former fire dragon a “Chinese fireball” and the water a “Hungarian horntail.” The entrance is even decorated accordingly: every detail is perfect. On the way to the tent (where the queue line is), there are posters commemorating each Triwizard champion, except, surprisingly, Cederic who owes his life to the competition.


other staples of the harry potter world are recreated as seen here:
Hagrid’s hut: where Hermione discusses the term “mud blood” in the first movie, and where ever after the trio find solace.

The Weasley’s infamous car: I don’t really thinks it needs much more of an introduction.


And that was only the rides, the attractions abound in Hogsmead really sealed the deal of wonderment.

Honeyduke’s: the sweet shop we all hold dearly in our hearts… or at least I do. I purchased some bertibott’s every flavor beans and a chocolate frog, complete with wizard card.


Zonko’s wasn’t nearly as great as I expected it to be, but hey how much un-charmed stuff can muggles really understand… or be allowed to buy for that matter? They did have an assortment of funny hats through; kind of reminded me of that rejected short, but we didn’t’ beat anyone, I promise ;).


Ollivander’s. Wow. It was set up as an attraction where 25 people shove into the cooler of a room after an hr long wait, and one person gets to find their wand. I’m just saying, you should go when the crowds die down a little bit… it will still be magical. And yes… I know you’re thinking it; I was picked to find my wand… or rather have the wand find me. It’s 5½ inches of willow with a unicorn hair core. I bought it, obviously. So go, I will not ruin the novelty of your experience

The Three Broomsticks: Yes! We ate lunch in the three broomsticks complete with butterbeers, so scumdidlyumptious. I won’t ruin that flavor for you either. The menu is rather traditional, and not at all vegetarian or vegan friendly… but hey what do you expect from a theme park? It was still wonderful. Sadly we didn’t eat in Hogshead, because it was rather crowded and a shrew of a lady kept barking at me for some reason or another. Nevermind that, still amazing!
Also featured is the Hogsmead train station, with train in station… grand.

SO for today, I fear that is all I can say about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, while allowing to let you see it for yourself…. I suggest you go.

I solemnly swear I am up to no good,
Valerie.

46.

I don't even know where to start. Well usually most people like to start on the low point and move higher so let's talk about what a fail the beginning of my summer was health wise:
1. lice: usually transmitted by the little dirt monkeys of the world (if you are not familiar with my vernacular... dirt monkeys=children in elementary school) yet as a 17 year old i got it for the first, and hopefully last time... knock on wood, obviously... So that happened to me a while ago. As of now I'm officially lice-free and ecstatic. While infected i had to wrap my head in mayonnaise, among other disgusting treatments. So, lesson of the day... you don't want lice.

2. black eye: while playing the innocent of field hockey... i got smashed in the face (while still lice infected) which is why i was in the hospital. I had to get a catscan and everything to make sure nothing was broken. Here's the progression of my eye:
day 1:

day 2:

day 3:

day 4:

day 5:

and then it got a lot better, so i stopped taking pictures of it. salt water does wonders in conjunction with time.

and since that's the bad... and only the bad, I'm going to post the two separately. mainly to talk about the HARRY POTTER THEME PARK.

trying desperately to organize my thoughts,
valerie. xoxo.

45.

Sorry i haven't posted in awhile, but it seems as through my family is a fraying sweater, and everything is falling apart. Two trips to the ER over the last two days, one nasty case of head lice, and no income has proven to be a catalyst to my families apparent demise. My mom's going now to the ER, so more later. and i have work... so thats fun.