Andrea Rants: Insights, Thoughts, and Opinions

MY thoughts, insights and opinions on things in MY life. I'm not asking for your judgment. Enjoy...or not.

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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Corporate America 12 year veteran. I've held positions ranging from Customer Service to Sr. Manager to Assistant Vice President of Marketing. Novelist. I've always written. My first book was penned (or rather, penciled) at the tender age of six, and every moment since, I have been writing this short story or that novel. My first novel is a work of fiction: Her Essence, a Mystery/Thriller. I am in the process of writing my first non-fiction book, which incorporates my life coaching methodologies and philosphies as well as other thrillers: Taming Roland, About Bryant, and the sequel to Her Essence.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Networking It! (Sort of)


Still 'out there' trying to make this writing thing happen. I attended this event over the summer hosted by Chicago Magazine (hence what I'm reading.) I did warm up and meet people, unfortunately, no editors. On a hunch, I checked out the pics...I did pose for one picture, but it didn't make the cut. This one did though...I scrolled right past it, forgot that my hair was curly that day.

OK, that was fun! Talk to me!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Happy 100th!

This is my 100th post on Andrea Rants: Insights, Thoughts and Opinions. In honor of this being the 100th post, I'm reliving my fav five. And they are: (queue the drum roll in your head...)

Yoga Etiquette
Denying Beauty
Differences
Intention
Random Thoughts

Honorable Mention...Leaders

Some of you may be thinking, but what about the soulmates blog or Change...if so, feel free to let me know your favorite.

Happy 100 to me...;)

Friday, October 13, 2006

Change

It's fall. Officially. And it even snowed yesterday, and I believe that is the earliest snowfall that I have experienced in my lifetime. I could be wrong, as I have not checked my facts, but regardless...

Change is difficult. For different reasons. Some of us like to know what to expect, for others, we like what we know, for others still, we can't function without structure.

I am a rare bird. I LIKE change. I don't like surprise, but I do like change. I would shrivel up and turn old with a job where I could predict what would happen day after day. The variety would keep me young and fresh. And yes, I am young and fresh and I'll be so well after 80.

I enjoy the change in season. I enjoy the fact that as the trees change, it also changes my view and I lose my sense of direction because things have changed seemingly overnight.

At a red light, I watched as hawks glided and circled overhead, perhaps looking for lunch, children, favorite trees and the sort. It was a sight to see. They were large and beautiful and majestic. They rarely flapped their wings as they allowed the wind (which was rather high) to propel them about. I couldn't help but to think that they were making the best of change. They were embracing it.

It was a lesson, I too, will embrace. I have embraced. As this season is moving from warm to cool, I too, may circulate in a similar fashion. Change is a beautiful thing. Embracing it, allows for authenticity and growth. And in the words of Blythe, "What could be better?"

Monday, October 09, 2006

New Show

I've been watching the new show, Sisters and Brothers lately. I must say that it is really well written and thoughtful and thought inspiring...if that can happen for TV..that's usually left for books (shameless self promotion!)

Anyhow, I've taped it and will watch it when I get a spare moment...which was today. Ok...so I'm taken! Those who know me, know that I will allow for like three hours a week for TV, and it all BETTER be good. This one makes the cut. I'll let you know what the other two hours consists of when I finally decide.

anyone else watching it? Writing it? (As I am.........)

Ok. Look forward to feedback.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Men's Instinct

Often we, and when I say we, I mean we ladies, tend to discount men’s instinct. It’s similar to our intuition, but slightly different. Our intuition is far stretching as it invades our dreams, it overtakes our minds by way of formulating a quick decision, and it is just a part of us whether we acknowledge it or not.

Men, on the other hand, act impulsively. It’s based on an instinct that they may not be aware of. I believe that it relies on past experience. And in this way, it is different from ours because we don’t always work on past experience, but on odd new experiences that ‘just happen,’ however the results are the same.

I have been known to discount men as animalistic, non-thinking beasts that just allow things to happen. I’m always thrown when a man acts with intuition (which is why I call it instinct! It sometimes looks like intuition, but really it’s based on some past hurt.)

I think we do a disservice to ourselves when we believe that they don’t think beyond the here and now. They do. They are instinctual, and the more life experiences, the stronger the instinct (perhaps why Demi really chose Ashton???)

Where they go wrong, is when they believe that you are the just like the last person they met or had a relationship with, and they learned some awful life lesson that they then apply to you, when in reality, you wouldn’t possibly do the crime. It can ruin a relationship. But it’s just their survival instinct to lump you in with the pack. It’s definitely not intuitive…for intuition is based on futuristic thinking, not the past.

I don’t know if I’ve done a great job of explaining my thoughts here, but in a nutshell…we think differently: for men, I think it’s based on past experiences and they tend to expect an outcome. We predict an outcome, based on a futuristic thought. Both should garner respect. Otherwise we’ll be caught off guard. I don’t like to be caught off guard.


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