New year, new project

You want to know a very big highlight of 2011? One I was so busy with everything happening that I didn't completely realized happened until I did and then paused with joy and was taken over by a wonderful feeling of comfort for the first time in a long while?

A four year-old dream came true, one that I have been keeping in the back of my mind ever since starting this blog in early 2008.

I've been offered to become a professional blogger.

And in French too, which makes me want to sing, because even though I LOVE writing in English, over time I started to feel that I missed doing it in my first language, as well.

So I'm an official, contracted food blogger over at Sympatico now (they're the Web branch of Bell, which is a very big telecom provider/media company here. I don't know much about their analytics, but it's probably a top-20 website in Quebec in terms of traffic).

I'm doing one post a week, which is clearly not enough to sustain a living, but could, once our house sells, once we're settled and don't have this financial disaster looming upon us anymore, maybe allow me to cut back hours at my day job. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one really hard, anyway.

This project is incredibly fun, and I'm really grateful for them giving me my chance even if I'm not a big name (they have a total of ten bloggers, a truly fantastic crowd, whom I all recently met for a fun let's-gather-the-team-over-brunch event I already mentioned).

If you read French, please come over!