I'm glad you could see where I was coming from...I was afraid I might not have made much sense, lol. And, hopefully once you saw Rachel, you'd like her...though most hated her in S3 of OTH, but she grew on the audience more in S4.
Oh, Valerie's sense of humor was something that attracted me to her as well. I loved how though she could have been saying something to deliberately get under someone's skin, the way she said it, made you laugh. That's just who she was.
Speaking of funny moments with her and Steve...I loved how after they slept together that one time, and he was looking for his tie, she pulled it out of her cleavage.
Classic Valerie!