We've started rehearsals...eeeek

I can't believe that we've started.
I can't believe that I haven't written in a long time.
I can't believe how much time and energy it takes to start a company.
I can't believe how much I like working with my co-founder and how much I am learning...
I can't believe how right this feels.

So to catch the waiting blogosphere...our adoring public... up on goings ons...let me give a rundown of the last few months.

We stayed up all night to finish writing our first grant. Kinda felt like I was back in college and had a term paper due at 9 am. Finished late late late. Got up early early early to run it over to the DC gov office. We celebrated turning our first grant in. It felt good! Great! Amazing!

We then waited. Then waited some more. And more. And with each wait our belief that we would actually receive the grant fell. As the date passed when they were supposed to let the receipents know. And that was it.

About 2 weeks later I called in sick to work....I was sick. But then the doorbell rang.

Certified mail. No idea what it was.

I signed. I chatted with Mr Halls the mailman. I went back in.

I opened the mail and then scared my poor cat half to death....because the scream that came out of me was over the top to say the least. I screamed, danced, jumped around, cried, laughed....my sickness was healed!

We got the grant! And not just some portion. The ENTIRE amount we asked for! And they never, to our knowledge, had given this much to one company. I called JJ and screamed...then my mom...then my dad....

It was a good day. We're real. We have funds to pay our artists. We're real. We have to make it happen now. We're real.

Sigh...and this was supposed to be about rehearsals.

Next post. Maybe in a minute.

But first I can say that we are partially funded by the DC Commission of Arts and Humanities.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!