Squeal 'til the cows come home!

Ever hear one of those rooster alarm clocks that crows to wake you up in the morning? Well yesterday morning, the Acadian had a piggy alarm clock, and it woke him up with girly girl squeals! Because he's so wonderful, this didn't bother him, and it's also the reason I had to wake him up to share some super-awesome-exciting-fabulous news: I'm gonna write for an online magazine!!!! EeeeeeeeEEEeee!

I've always loved magazines, and in hindsight, my Mom might have been able to buy me a car with all the money she gave me over the years to buy copies of 17, YM, Teen... In our early 20's, KV and I even used to even daydream about launching our magazine - I don't really remember what it was about, but I know it was cool. Imagine how excited I was a few years later to get a job working for a company that publishes a travel magazine, which is the job I'm at until next Friday. Funny thing tough, I never dreamed of or had any desire to write for it. I handled the printing, production and even did some copy-editing a couple of times, but nope, I didn't need to write and it worked out just great like that.

Then came along my friend Milkybeer (whom I met at that job) who dared me last year to start a blog. And I did. Blogs involve writing. And I realized that. But the fun thing about blogs is that you can choose the topic each day, and that, well that was verrrrry interrrresting. At first, I wrote once or twice a week, but my life was getting too busy for my new "hobby", and as much as I felt like writing a quirky little story coming straight from my heart, there were dishes, the gym, groceries - all stuff that was more important, right?

So fast-forward to now, where I have decided to only do things that come from my heart. One thing I do is tweet. (I know, I know - I squeal, I tweet - I'm a whole frickin' barnyard, I know. I also do the French cow - they Meuh, not Moo. It's true.) If you are not on Twitter, don't worry, I won't try to convince you to do it, but it really is quite a bit of fun. When you sign up, you "follow" other people, but the cool thing is, you don't need to actually know them. It's the unspoken rule of Twitter. Follow people you think are cool, jump into conversations just for kicks and make new friends. You also never know what you will find in the big nest of tweets.

That's how I found Lightworker Magazine. It's an online mag, and they launched their very first issue in January. I loved their articles! They were inspiring and interesting and made me feel like there were other people out there who saw the world just like me! So what's it all about? They describe their purpose as striving to "inspire, educate and challenge lightworkers – people like you and I who are committed to living in a positive way and feel a deep drive and motivation to help make the world a better place – all around the globe." How wonderful!

A few weeks after I had originally discovered it, I got a little nudge telling me to email the editor. And, well, you know what happens when I get a nudge... So I sent an email to tell her how I felt about her great magazine, and to let her know that if she ever thought it might be nice to have an article from someone like me, I would definitely be up for it.

When I hit send, I heard a muffled groan from the Mean Lady who's still out in the backyard (Where she has been for about a month now. Darn, she must be cold!) "You're just one little person with a blog full of Cheerios, nobody wants to hear from you!". I was so proud of me and the Inner Child for ignoring her. "Well it's TOO late!" we said. And after all, if you would like to do something but instead, just sit there quietly, wishing it to happen, well, I can't say for sure that it won't, but geez, do yourself a favor, save your sanity and just tell people about it! You'd be surprised at who might just be able to help you. Wow. I can't believe that came out of me. That was a lesson that took me soooo long to learn, and boy, am I ever glad did.

So I'm in! I'M IN!!! I'm going to be writing a monthly feature (monthly!) for Lightworker Magazine! EEEeeeeeeeeee! (that is the sound happy French piggies make). So stay tuned for more random exciting news about my awesome unscripted adventure, and my upcoming children's CD - "Barnyard Animal Sounds with Sylvie the French Cow'. And yes, that last part is a joke. For now.