Pay It Forward, With a Smile

Create your day with your attitude... I totally believe this!  Head out in a miffy mood, and everyone will seem pissy and grumpy.  Head out with a happy outlook, and everyone will seem happy.

Happy is a choice, I highly recommend choosing it :)

If you smile, someone will smile back, then share that smile with others - keep it going!

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Monday Traffic Report - San Mateo Bridge

Today I drove Foster City for work, usually this commute takes me over two hours - today was almost record time, just over an hour! Woot!

I traveled from the East Bay and crossed the San Mateo Bridge, we have lots of bridges here in the Bay Area - the San Mateo bridge is a neat one to travel across as it is kind of a unique span compared to the others...

When heading West, it starts out low, parallel to the water.  When the tide is high it appears the bridge is actually floating on the water. 

Then there is a sizable incline (so boats can go under).  Sometimes there are helicopters hovering to the side for wire work, sometimes you see planes coming in to land at the San Francisco Airport. Other days you see wind surfers out sailing across the water...

On a clear day, it is just gorgeous as you can see the San Francisco Skyline across the sparkly ocean!

Sometimes you have to pause to appreciate the beauty that is all around you, even when you are commuting :)

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Stay-cation almost over....

*sigh* my little stay-cation is almost over, today was the last day; back to the working world tomorrow!

Good news, I survived the holidays, and managed to keep a low profile, chilling at home mostly. It was nice to be home with my daughter who also was on stay-cation :)

As I chose a stay-cation, vs. traveling abroad, I successfully avoided the paparazzi.... (lol)

Looking forward to starting fresh in 2014!  (aside from the fact that my alarm will sound at 6 am tomorrow morning...)

To a fresh start!

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Organizing the Home Office

Today I decided to re-organize the home office... 

I was getting that feeling of being overwhelmed a bit, enclosed, surrounded by too much stuff.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm super organized, to the point of having it pointed out multiple times, by multiple people, that I'm 'anal'... 

Sometimes my organization may go a bit overboard.  So today was a day of purging; old paperwork, condensing my baskets, boxes and containers to include fewer things IN fewer things (sometimes less IS more).

WHEW it was a lot of work, and if you peeked in my office door, it actually does not even look like I spent a day organizing my home office - LOL...

Doesn't that drive you nuts? When you know you did so much but it just does not appear you did?  (well me and our recycle bin in the garage know).  I got rid of a LOT today, and it feels GREAT!

Getting rid of the old, allows room for the new!  Here's to 2014!

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Have You Ever NOT Grocery Shopped?

So I finally took some vacation days, I had not taken any for a full year, and finally took some days around the holidays. Besides leaving the house to celebrate Christmas Eve and a Birthyouation party a few days later, my plans were to pretty much do nothing.  And, it was fabulous!

I SO needed time to sleep in, relax, and just, do, nothing...

Which actually included the fact that I did not go grocery shopping, much to the concern of the other people whom live here with me (snicker).

I knew we had plenty of food, I figured I'd let everyone be creative with snacks and such.  Opposed to the usual everyone-eats-all-the-new-stuff-and-leaves-the-old-stuff-to-go-stale situation.  Well it worked!

We are out of TONS of things that have been looming in the pantry for quite some time, muaaa - haaaa- haaaaa...

But can I mention how much money I saved not buying groceries for two weeks?

So now I have two days left of my little stay-cation and I really (really-really) don't want to go to the store this weekend... I may just check out the local grocery store's home delivery service. (grin)

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

They say to go confidently in the direction of your dreams....

However sometimes it is an unknown road you must take to get there!

There may be multiple paths, hiding beyond multiple doors - seems to be where I am right now!

Heading somewhere, just not sure where yet!


Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com

Welcome to 2014

Am I the only one searching for something new in 2014?

Start a new company?  Join a new company?

I know it's time to head a new direction, I just need the internal compass to settle on which one!

Alethea Anderson
MultiMediaMom.com