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Posts from April, 2007

april

Posted by Val on April 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |

April has been brought to you by the lucky number 7!

4. Pick a hair color and stick with it for a while
–Dyed it blonde…again…it is looking a lot more natural!

26. See Naked Boys Singing
–I ordered my tickets!!

~~32. Go to at least 1 art show~~
–Yay for Gabriel!!!

~~37. Watch 3 80s movies I have never seen before~~
–The Gate – crucial 80s moment: playing record backwards unleashes the devil
–Girls Just Want to Have Fun – crucial 80s moment: dance off!
–Can’t Buy Me Love – crucial 80s moment: entire school breaks into choreographed dance moves at school dance

~~39. Watch every Hellraiser movie~~
–Hellrasier – Jesus Wept
–Hellbound: Hellrasier II – He’s ba-ack
–Hellrasier III: Hell on Earth – I remember watching this when I was 12.
–Hellraiser: Bloodline – every horror series has an obligatory movie that explains the origins and an obligatory movie that takes place well in the future. This one was both.
–Hellraiser: Inferno – detective crime movie. I think Pinhead was in it for 30 seconds.
–Hellrasier: Hellseeker – I remember seeing this before, but can’t place where or when for the life of me.
–Hellraiser: Deader – my favorite part was when the reporter from LONDON bribes a landlord from ROMANIA with an AMERICAN $20
–Hellraiser: Hellworld – the one where Pinhead learns to use the internet.

51. Read ten Pulitzer Prize winning books
–Read “A Thousand Acres” (1991) – four down! I first read this in one day my senior year in high school. Not in one day because it was a can’t-put-it-down book, but becasue I was a lazy student who put everything off ’till the last minute. I took a day off from school and sat in bed to read it all day for the test the next day. :) That said, it is an excellent book.

~~53. Read A Million Little Pieces~~
–Finished it today! Yeah, it sucks that he felt he had to make shit up. Yeah, it sucks that I really didn’t feel his addiction. Yeah, it sucks that he for some reason capitalized a bunch of random words. So…other than that it was a decent book and I actually enjoyed reading it and actually cried. I read and skimmed over the smoking gun page that first accused him of lying (by the way, when did tmz.com replace thesmokinggun.com in the leak all the celebrity gossip before anyone else category? I mean, when is the last time smoking gun leaked anything??). The thing I found funny was how they kept saying it was so surprising that Oprah picked this book because it was so gruesome. Maybe I am immune to things from all the horror films I watch, ’cause I didn’t think it was that graphic at all. :)

72. Learn to use my ipod and get all my music on it
–I got about 40 cds on it. but the cd player on my poor pinkie is broken and I haven’t gotten around to taking it to get fixed yet. Also, MK still has a bunch of CDs that I left at his place over a year ago now. :(

73. Go golfing
–Nope, ’cause a certain someone never invites me :(

82. See Takeru Kobayashi
–Nope, but if I become a Bunnette I bet I will!

83. Knock off some fun Illinois attractions
–Planning an awesometacular roadtrip that may include some of these awesometacular sites!

85. Bake once a month
–Blueberry muffins!

~~88. Go to Adobo for guac and margs~~
–mmmm, guac and margs!

~~95. Orange for brunch~~
–mmmm, frushi!

~~97. Enter a recipe contest~~
–Entered my yummy Pineapple Chicken Pockets in the Pillsbury Bakeoff!!!

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how to fall in love

Posted by Val on April 29th, 2007 at 8:43 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |

Val:: what horror films have taught me is that the way to find a man to fall in love with is to go to a party with a bunch of friends, and then have all of them die but me and that guy and then we fall in love over the process of trying to survive together
Val:: you’re never going to invite me to a party again, are you? :-(
JoeJoe:: well … the deal seems to be that everyone would die but me
JoeJoe:: depending on who i invite, this could go ok
Val:: so then alina dies, the two of us are fine and we fall in love?
JoeJoe:: fat chance i’d invite her
Val:: :-(

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Val:: i am applying to be a bunette
Sid:: better get good letters of recommendation
Val:: you can attest for me
Val:: basically a bunettes are the girls who hold up the signs saying how much was eaten at eating contests :-)
Sid:: ooooh, bunette
Sid:: i read brunette
Sid:: and thought you were talking about dyeing your hair
Val:: haha, nono
Val:: i do not need to apply for that
Val:: and i am sticking with blonde
Sid:: fair enough
Val:: i can’t believe i am actually applying for this
Val:: i have to send in my photo
Sid:: better ho it up for the photo
Val:: haha, i tried
Val:: but then i cut out my chest from the photo
Sid:: why?
Sid:: that’s like taking a vow of silence before a job interview
Val:: hahaha
Val:: i figure a pic of my chest could only hrt me
Sid:: now they’ll know you’re up to something though

So…yeah…I applied to be a Bunnette :)

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blueberry hill

Posted by Val on April 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |

Last night Cynthia and I went to see her friend Gabe’s art show at the Merchandise Mart. It was pretty cool. The show itself was in a kitchen-design store. Awesome, eh? And his art was pretty good. When I met him he said that his mother named him Gabriel, so he always introduces himself as Gabriel and lets people gradually call him Gabe once he knows them…sound like someone you know??? His art was really nice. Mixed media put together with strips of magazines and newspaper clippings to make a scene (I do not know anything about art so I am merely using terms I think are correct). Very cool. He said he just uses things he finds around the house.

After walking through, drinking some wine, and eating some fruit (kumquats maybe?) and yummy cheese we decided to check out the rest of what was going on there. Now, Gabe’s show lasted until 9, so we assumed that the other shows going on there did too, so we bought a ticket and went up to check out the other art show…but then about 15 minutes later they kicked us out :( Apparently they were definitely two different things and that thing ended at 7. Ooops.

So we went out to find some food and stopped at Lalo’s where we got yummy food, free soup, and planned our weddings. :)

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Today so far I watched some Hellraiser and did some shopping. I went to Victoria’s Secret and when I walked in there was a girl in there, maybe 13. She was seriously standing there in the PINK section with her mouth wide open and her hands in jazz hands at her sides and she’s saying “I’M…IN…HEAVEN!!!!” and running around touching everything. She wasn’t even one of those 13 year olds I normally see in there who are decked out in all designer wear and wearing more makeup then I’ve ever worn in my life. ope, she was kind of normal looking. Anyway, I guess VS has found a good way to create brand loyalty young.

Then I came home and baked some blueberry muffins:

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I am now addicted to the Dulce de Leche Latte at Starbucks. It tastes just like how I took my coffee when I was a kid (yes, I’ve been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember) where it was about a third coffee, a third milk, and a third sugar. YUM!

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charm city

Posted by Val on April 26th, 2007 at 10:38 pm | Permalink | 3 Comments » |

On Ace of Cakes tonight they made a Bears Vs. Colts Super Bowl Cake. I could not find a pic online, so I took a picture of my TV.

Their cake:

My Cake:

I think we can all agree whose is better ;-)

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reality tv sucks

Posted by Val on April 25th, 2007 at 10:13 pm | Permalink | 2 Comments » |

I guess I have to do my weekly tv update for you…

1. The Apprentice
I’m happy that Stefani won. I liked her the best, if only because I still think she looked the most like someone who should work for Trump (well, before she died her hair). Besides, it wasn’t her fault that the dumb new rules of the show prevented her from ever being PM. Well, if nothing else this show reminded me of why I gave up watching it 2 seasons ago.

2. 24
Ummm, quite honestly I don’t even remember much that happened this week. All I know is that if some hot guy was brave enough to battle terrorists to save me I would bother to remember who he was. Any takers?

3. Americas Next Top Model
:( I forgot to tape it tonight. Luckily they always repeat it on Sunday.

4. American Idol
What the fuck American Idol? WHAT. THE. FUCK? After how many years of pulling off show upon show every year, don’t you think they could do a little better job at throwing together a charity shindig? If you don’t know (and I am assuming that 99.9% of my readership doesn’t) tonight American Idol put on a 2-hour charity event to raise money for Africa. And it was quite possibly the choppiest most boring show ever. Yes, the footage of poverty is heartbreaking and yes they raised money and that should be the point (never mind the fact that the money they raised is only a tiny portion of what the show actually brings in each week…) But Seacrest couldn’t put together a coherent sentence to save his life (at one point he just looked at Paula and said “you’re short.”) And then you put together a performance between Celine Dion and ELVIS. And then you still spend the whole night making fun of Sanjaya. And then you for some reason bump off all of the acts you’ve been promising for weeks! Umm, where were Mr. Bean, Harry Potter, Pink, Borat, Gwen Stefani??? You cut a hell of a lot of people that we were promised.

And then you go through the whole show promising the most socking elimination, make us think Jordan is going home, and then say that you are not voting anyone off on charity night. Yes, that would be the good, compassionate thing to do…if you had said that in the beginning and not made the poor contestant cry! Seriously, it was the worst show ever! Jack Black and the Simpsons were the only highlights.

5. Dinner Impossible
Just wanted to say that this is my new favorite show :)

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