its good to be back

today is the day.
no its not the first day of the rest of my life, nor is it the "day your dreams come true" (gaston from BATB i really hope you got that.)
today is the day that rehearsals begin. cue happy heart palpatations.
thats right ladies and gents, this chica is gonna be back on stage! if you remember my previous sappy post about missing the shiznit out of some stage lights, you could begin to grasp how happy my return to theater is making me. for those who arent completely familiar with my past, i used to be a theater kid. thats right, i was THAT girl. the girl who would willingly stay after school for four plus hours on a daily just to run around on stage while regurgitating lines that someone else wrote and belting showtunes that have been around for decades. that was my passion, my niche and it made me fly. after graduation, i decided for some reason that theater was a stupid passion to have and that instead of nurturing this hobby, i should discard it and only think of it on the rare occasion. this plan was not well thought out and subsequently i became super sad due to a lack of interesting pasttime. for some reason, it took me a good two years and a swift kick in the pants by my darling sister for me to realize that my theater amputation was not good for me and i should get off my ass and audition for something. later that same night, i got online and found an audition for the NEXT DAY. cue twilight zone music. call it a coincidence, call it cosmic, i call it cool. so i auditioned the next day, got a callback for the lead role and a week later found out that i got in the show as a chorus role.

BOOMSHAKAFREAKINLAKA

let me just say that im glad theres not a secret video camera in my apartment because there would have been alot of celebratory ass-shaking and whooping footage that could make for some excellent blackmail material.

so fast forward two weeks, and now were here. the first day of rehearsals. ive been dreaming about this day for the past fortnight and i can barely keep my feet from clicking together leprechaun style. tonight, ill start the staging process and meet the rest of the cast, aka my family for the next two and a half months.
so maybe this is the first day of the rest of my life.
maybe it is the day my dreams come true.
maybe its just monday.
whatever it is, it makes me happy.
and its really, really good to be back.

--amandamargaret