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On February 6th, 2008 website author Jacqueline wrote: Well, yesterday...
I started my morning in the usual fashion. Six o'clock alarm, listen to husband hit the
snooze. Feed the cats, open the kid's room to roust sleeping beauty for school, stumble
down to the kitchen to get coffee going. Reach for Blackberry phone, yawn and lean against
the counter, turn on phone and squint at the dark sky with a hint of life and light. Two
voicemails. Stir coffee and listen with half an ear. The first - an irritating message from
someone informing me that they were not going to be reliable today as advertised. I was on
my own. Great. Hit delete. The second message- and no kidding here- was from Quintin
Strack, the casting director for Extreme Makeover, wanting to talk about the Booth family
Drop the phone. Start screaming. Wake the entire household. Make everyone, absolutely
everyone listen to the message. Listen to it again to make sure it's NOT a dream.
Long story short- Mr Strack is a absolutely super man who took the time to talk to me at
great length about the Booths. You'd think he had nothing else to do by the way he patiently
answered all my questions.
So here's the deal: First, we wait for Extreme Makeover Home Edition to get picked up
again by ABC for the next season. Second, we wait for the Booths to make it through the
weeding out process- down from thousands of applicants, to the current hundreds, down to
those precious lucky few. Then the show takes into consideration the location of these
families, the housing market, the different stories, and community support. Then they decide
who gets chosen.
Then I faxed him the application, since they haven't found yet it in the tons of applications
they've received, and he told me I could call him at any time to find out where we were in the
process. Nice guy, eh??
Oh, and a HUGE hug and thank you to the "Judy Martin" in Northern California who had
Mr Strack's email and forwarded him some news article about the Booths that had my
phone number at the bottom- I have no idea what that article is or who you are, but you are
the BEST!!! THANK YOU!!
I started my morning in the usual fashion. Six o'clock alarm, listen to husband hit the
snooze. Feed the cats, open the kid's room to roust sleeping beauty for school, stumble
down to the kitchen to get coffee going. Reach for Blackberry phone, yawn and lean against
the counter, turn on phone and squint at the dark sky with a hint of life and light. Two
voicemails. Stir coffee and listen with half an ear. The first - an irritating message from
someone informing me that they were not going to be reliable today as advertised. I was on
my own. Great. Hit delete. The second message- and no kidding here- was from Quintin
Strack, the casting director for Extreme Makeover, wanting to talk about the Booth family
Drop the phone. Start screaming. Wake the entire household. Make everyone, absolutely
everyone listen to the message. Listen to it again to make sure it's NOT a dream.
Long story short- Mr Strack is a absolutely super man who took the time to talk to me at
great length about the Booths. You'd think he had nothing else to do by the way he patiently
answered all my questions.
So here's the deal: First, we wait for Extreme Makeover Home Edition to get picked up
again by ABC for the next season. Second, we wait for the Booths to make it through the
weeding out process- down from thousands of applicants, to the current hundreds, down to
those precious lucky few. Then the show takes into consideration the location of these
families, the housing market, the different stories, and community support. Then they decide
who gets chosen.
Then I faxed him the application, since they haven't found yet it in the tons of applications
they've received, and he told me I could call him at any time to find out where we were in the
process. Nice guy, eh??
Oh, and a HUGE hug and thank you to the "Judy Martin" in Northern California who had
Mr Strack's email and forwarded him some news article about the Booths that had my
phone number at the bottom- I have no idea what that article is or who you are, but you are
the BEST!!! THANK YOU!!
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