Lucille Ball in Jamestown, NY

Hey,

Just got back yesterday from New York and Ohio doing college visits at University of Rochester and Case Western Reserve University. I liked them both. More on that as the application process goes on.

But, on the way back from those visits, my dad and I went to Jamestown, New York, hometown of Lucille Ball! There was a Lucy Desi museum there that we went to. It had a cool gift shop and a whole bunch of back rooms with her dresses and Desi's suits in them. They also had little fun facts about their lives and I Love Lucy. There were props from the show, like the cello she used in her clown act, and the fan that Fred used when the feathers blew everywhere.

But, my favorite part was the Desilu Playhouse. Are you ready for me to tell you what was in it? Are you sure? Ok. They had the ORIGINAL sets of their apartment for the show. Cool, huh? They had the living room and the kitchen, and the bedroom!

I will post pictures of the outside later...they wouldn't allow pics in the museum sadly...

Updates on the little kitty

Yo,

So, we have been trying to get the little kitten we found (who by the way is getting much healthy-looking and bigger) and Poppins to get used to each other, but there is much hissing and growling...yes, growling (I didn't even know cats could growl!) involved. Poppins even hisses when she smells the other kitten on another object. Talk about a power trip. The little kitten doesn't understand Poppins' territorial needs, I guess!

Well, it looks like we may not be able to keep the little sweet kitten :( But we tried and that's what counts. We are going to try a few more times with Poppins, but if its just more teeth and claws and grunts and groans (and growls), we will need to find another farm around here that she can live at.

I got school supplies today...........I don't know whether to say ick to that...or, well, ick...

Over and out...

The last week of filming!

So, last week was the last week of filming in our barn!

We are actually a bit glad that all the hustle-and-bustle is coming to an end because it was very disruptive actually! Our sleeping patterns were all out of wack, and we were constantly worried that someone on the crew would do something we didn't like or put something somewhere that we didn't want them to.

But here's a recap what what happened on the three days:

On Monday night, more scenes with David Arquette were filmed. He was running up the front lawn and into the barn where he proceeded to shoot his fake (yet still really loud) gun again. Which I'm sure woke up half of Manchester. He did that scene about 78032597 times before they found a take they liked (honestly, I didn't see any difference between the 3425th take and the 3426th take, but whatever). There were some more scenes where the extras ran out of the barn, and we could be in the barn watching that one because they used the whole thing in the shot...and they didn't want the creepy-homeowners-who-were-crazy-and-stayed-up-all-night in the scene...for now...dun dun dun...Then it was really cool because David walked into the snack tent, and my mom and I, being the weirdos that we are, went in the tent too. I think he saw us because we were being very obvious while we were talking about our farm...hehe. Then, he was walking back to the barn and he saw my dad leaning on one of our cars (and he guessed that we were the homeowners because he began walking towards us!!!) He asked us if we lived here and told us that we had a nice place. He introduced himself ("Hi, I'm David") and I was thinking...as if you NEED to introduce yourself! And then he shook all of our hands! It was cool.

THEN later in the evening, my dad and I were watching him do a scene and he had a break. He walked right up to us on his own time (we didn't call him or anything!) and he started explaining to us how all this stuff worked! Then he asked me what year I was in school and what I wanted to do in college! The three of us talked for a little bit! This was all I wanted from the stars! Just to talk to one of them!!!

On Tuesday night, they decided that it was okay if they used me in the extra pool! So, they dressed me up and I had a fake knife sticking out of my stomach...it was awesome! All the crew then knew I was the homeowner's daughter right away! We did some walking in the barn scenes (look for me in the movie when Hayden is talking on her phone walking into the party) and some scenes where we were watching the Stab movies. We had to react to the same bit of film about 20 times or so, and we were all getting tired and had less of a reaction as the morning rolled on. Back in the extra tent, I met/recognized some people who graduated from Greenhills in 2007 and 2008! They were nice to hang out with me so I had someone to talk to. So, that night was fun and tiring at the same time!

On Wednesday night, there were no stars that came, but there were a lot of scenes where the star's photo doubles did the same scenes as the regular actors. It was a real repeat. But the cool thing that happened was this: Devin Scillion (I think that's how you spell his name) came and acted as the reporter for the crimes in the movie, and even Wes was amazed at how convincing he was! It was amazing! By the way, for those of you who don't know who Devin is (I didn't know who he was until Dad told me :P) he is a nighttime news reporter for channel 4 news...there you go...that was what happened on the last few days of filming!

A Leetle Keetty Found!

Hello,

Now for a week before last Saturday. My mom and I were going to PetSmart to get dog food for Liza when we saw a very very little animal cross the road and go into the brush. We stopped for a moment there and realized that it was a little kitten! So, we go on to the pet store and then we abandon the store idea and realize that we want to try to save the kitten. So we go home, get like 68 pounds of bug spray on (it had just rained), food and milk to entice the kitten, and long cloths, and begin our excursion into the woods!

First, we make the typical little kitty clicking noises that say "come here!" but that doesn't work, so we begin meowing...yes meowing. And whadya know! It works! The kitten meows back. This is the tool we used to locate where the kitten was going, because we couldn't see her.

There were a few times where she came out as if she wanted to eat, but then gets scared by out movements and goes back into the weeds. After about three or four of those, I finally grabbed her. And what skin and bones she was! I could feel each bone in her spine and her pelvis and her ribs...it was really sad. (And another thing, when we found her, this cat looked to young to be out on her own...maybe a little longer than my hand.) We brought her back home where we fed her cottage cheese and yogurt (those were the only things she would eat.)

That next Monday, we took her to the vet and found out she had a cold and a strange wound thing under her neck. Both of which are going away now. By the way, she weighed 1.2lbs...

Now she is doing very well. She has gained weight and feels normal now, her cold's almost gone, and her sore is healing.

She loves to be pet and purrs instantly when you enter the mudroom. We don't know if we are going to keep her or not, but if our other cat, Poppins, doesn't mind her, we may.

Lost in Ann Arbor!

Hey,

I've kept you a little out of the loop lately and I'm sorry. Let's start with the earliest adventure, shall we?

Well, not last Thursday but the one before that, I went to my SAT tutoring class in downtown Ann Arbor...and then later I had to go to my college essay class at my school, which is on the East side of Ann Arbor. So, I had to go from the West to the East. Well...I got to the tutoring place alright, but when it ended, I realized that I needed gas. My light had just gone on. But of course I'm complete poop at directions so my mom's trying to tell me how to get to the nearest gas station with little luck. So I told her I'd just "wing it." Um, let me tell you how THAT went.

FIRST, I'm trying to get to the gas station that my mom told me to go to. THEN I find another one that I pass like 3 times before I find the entrance. And its a SMALL station. Barely room for four cars. So after I'm done there, I'm trying to find Main St. which is not hard to do because it runs all the way down Ann Arbor. I find it, but I can't turn left onto it. So I go straight into places I've never seen before. Somehow, I end up by Blimpy Burger, which I have NO idea where that is. Then I magically end up on South University which is on the OTHER SIDE OF TOWN!!! Luckily that runs into State, but then I think I'm going the wrong way so I turn around. But I'm actually going the right way, so I go on Main then Liberty. But THEN I turn the wrong way on that, so I have to turn around. So I go into the parking structure to ask my how to get to school (because the road I normally take is closed). He tells me and I have no problems there. But THEN when I get to Geddes, an enormous oversized truck with a trailer blocks BOTH lanes so I have to wait for about five minutes. THEN I get to school. But then I get lost again going down town trying to get back to the University. Only buses can turn the way I want to turn so I have to go this roundabout way again. It's not as bad as the previous excursion, but its still pretty bad.

By the time I get home, I'm exhausted...