Red October

What will you do this year? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Personally I gave those up decades ago. Yes I have desires I wish to fulfill, but no resolutions. One of my desires is to get better at writing. I will be honing my skills over the next few months in order to get good enough to make money doing it. I have started a class to help excel my skills and will be practicing those skills right here. Another desire is to get my old mustang looking and running good. It needs quite a bit of help, but it’s do-able.

Here is a suggestion for you – go to Russia in 2010. It will be a great year to go for it. Find 2 or 3 women (or more) you are interested in meeting and make plans! If you don’t go for it, you may never do it. Even if you don’t hit it off with any one woman, you’ll get to spend 2 weeks in Russia and see what it is all about. That’s the attitude I had when I went. I spent 3 weeks in Russia and traveled to Moscow and Yekaterinburg. But by the third week I was worn out with Russia. So my suggestion to you is to limit yourself to 2 weeks and plan on having an awesome time!

We went to the annual Russian New Year’s Eve Party. As usual, it was a big hit and I’d give it a thumbs up. This year’s party was a little different. The couple who hosted it was a French husband and a Russian wife. So there were a lot of French people there when we arrived. The party was a bit, shall we say lacking of personality when we arrived, but the more Russians that showed up the livelier the party got. Russian women tend to let loose and have a lot of fun at these parties. One woman’s husband showed up late. He had to get his nap in before coming to the party? Well, what can I say about us Americans – we like to be well rested for the night’s events…  They had Russian ‘Channel 1′ blasting on the TV and watching the Moscow New Year’s celebration. This is a staple of every Russian New Year’s party. They love to watch the party on TV and dance to the live music.

Russian Pop Singer Anita Tsoi at the Channel One Russian Party

Yes – there was a lot of champagne flowing, vodka, dancing, eating and good conversation with friends. I met a few new people as well. Russians know how to celebrate the New Year! And the good news is that my headache is minimal this morning. But the Russian champagne was pretty darn good.

Just a quick note to tell everyone Merry Christmas. I wish all of the very best in the coming year. If you are looking for a Russian wife, I wish you the best of luck at finding your true love.

Kelly

Yes, you heard me correctly – the season of parties. What am I implying? I think you know. The Russian New Year is coming. How is this different you ask? Are you kidding? This is like the best party of the whole year.

Since Soviet times when Christmas was banned due to it being a religious holiday, Russians have celebrated the New Year, Christmas style. Yes, now that there is no Soviet Union anymore, Christmas is observed, but not in the same sense. Christmas happens on January 7th every year. You see, January 7th is the same day as December 25th on the old Julian calendar which was in use until 1918 when the Soviets took over Russia. The big holiday is New Year’s. While celebrating the incoming year, it is also their Christmas. As well, many Russians celebrate the ‘Old New Year’ on January 14th. Just like Christmas, the old New Year is 14 days later with the Julian calendar.

Interesting fact – every New Year’s Eve in Russia, the movie Irony of Fate is played on the TV. It’s an old Soviet era movie that is actually fun to watch and easy for us Americans to understand even though we can’t understand…

So, back to the parties. We seem to go to many Russian parties throughout the year, but the big deal to everyone is the New Year’s Eve party. Even if you somehow don’t go to a party, you still celebrate with champagne. Very important. You might even exchange a gift or two on this eve for traditions sake.

But back to the parties. Very important – drink vodka. I said drink vodka. Did I say it clear enough? Drink vodka. And for your own sake, drink the good stuff! You’ll be very very sorry if you don’t drink good vodka. Have you ever worshiped the porcelain god? There’s no doubt you will if you drink cheap vodka. And the headache. Just buy the good stuff. You’ll be thanking me later – I promise. Oh, you are allowed to drink Baltika beer in between the vodka – sparingly. I of course prefer Baltika 9.

What happens at a Russian New Year’s party you ask? Any number of things. But mostly it’s a social event. Last year we threw a party and we ate dinner, drank vodka, played charades, sung karaoke and just had a good time. Of course we drank champagne at midnight. And I can’t vouch for anyone else, but after much beer, vodka and champagne I puked my guts out about 2AM. Yes, I over partied. But what the heck, I only do it once a year Russian style!

No they are not mandatory, but might make your search a little easier, yet costlier, but safer. Am I advocating using an agency – no. If you’ve read my blog you’ll know I didn’t use an agency. But I would say there was a bit of luck involved with my search. You see, I really wasn’t looking for a Russian wife.

What prompted this article? My wife is in the process of reviving/setting up her agency. She used to run an agency in Russia and closed it a few years ago. Now that things are changing for the better, she is in the process of getting it going again. Stay tuned for more information as to when it will open.

But my point is that I have been watching the competition and what they do. You see, it seems like the biggest competition only gets the most beautiful women. Odd, isn’t it? If you are looking, you’ve more than likely been to their web site. Seems all of the women are drop dead gorgeous.

Beautiful Russian Women from other web sites.

How do they do that? I am guessing they are just selective about who they let in. Or maybe they advertise themselves as the best in Russia to the women on the site and it is possible that they charge the women a fee to be on their site. I don’t know. Other large web sites have a variety of women that do come in all shapes, sizes and ages. But this one seems to only have utterly beautiful women. If what you want is a trophy wife, then that’s the place to look. If you want a real wife, then there are many web sites to see. The other thing I don’t care for is the fact that they make the guys buy credits and then charge you a bunch of credits to do/see anything. It’s a ripoff. But, they do have the web site with nothing but beautiful women…

I know what you are thinking. What the heck does a Russian tunnel have to do with Russian wives? Nothing other than they are both in Russia. Came across this and thought it was interesting and thought you might like to take a look, that’s all. I’ll be back to posting regularly pretty soon.

http://www.russiantunnel.com/