Are you ready to roll? Are you ready to rattle?

Where to begin...? Or pick up...? I know where I am but trying to put my finger on where it started or how we got here is a difficult task most days, tonight especially.
Tomorrow morning the building is ours. The long-talked-about, someday-we're-gonna-do-it building that will soon be known as HUGE Improv Theater.

I know from the reactions of everyone around me that i should be worried, maybe terrified, of what is coming ... but I'm excited. This feels like the only real landmark in the whole story that's been slowly taking shape for a very long time and I'm looking forward to everything on the other side of it.
For how long we've been planning and talking about this it seems like it should be MORE terrifying than even the most pessimistic forecasts make it sound - it always seemed like there was something absolutely massive stopping this from happening and now that we've made it here I have to wonder why it took this long.
When the IAGG took off it seemed like it was the beginning of this whole story and when the TCIF began it seemed like it had to be right around the corner but there was always the question of how the hell we get from "here" to "there" even with all the energy and support around us. There always seemed to be a frightening gap between where we were and where we wanted to be.

There were always dozens of practical reasons to wait or obvious problems with the numbers of it all that i would get stuck endlessly beating my head against before i finally stopped looking at them as reasons to wait or to not do it at all and instead just see them as parts of the job that are never going to go away. Waiting for it to get easy before we start is a great way to make sure we never do.

That was probably the day the work actually started - when we changed gears from doing shows and talking about how we were going to do this "someday" and how awesome it was going to be to actually doing it. It's easy to keep an eye on the tiny steps and tell yourself that you're doing something - to keep doing shows making enough to get pizza and a drink afterward and talk about how as soon as we have several thousand dollars in the bank we'll be ready...forever. It's easy to mistake that for "trying" without actually taking the risk and taking a run at the gap.

I think that security and comfort were the biggest hurdles to get over.
Far bigger an obstacle than this gap I've been staring at for so long.

Once we finally got over that idea that we were going to get ready enough before we started doing the heavy lifting we were able to actually get to DOING it and found out we had been ready for a long time and there was so much less to be afraid of than we would have guessed - and what there is to worry about it we can handle with a smile and a laugh and more energy than you've ever seen before and know that it's going to be a blast, no matter what happens.

Do I know exactly what will happen? Hell no.
But I'm finally going to find out - Thats the idea that is going to keep me awake all night.