h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I would love to know more, Anna. This is very exciting for me!

Another entry on Russian Fairy Tales would be a good thing to do, I think.

Dear , sorry for a long break, but the family, especially the children need sometimes more time as you expect, eg. diseases, visits, etc. However, I have some nice news for you. Of course, we would continue working on Russian fairy-tales, although its quite difficult for me to arrange a translation due to the lack of a Russian-English dicctionary, which will arrive at the end of Oct. Meanwhile I am working on another entry about money. And the second piece of news is that I am going to make you a little special gift which I´ve found on a flea market in a neighbourhood. It has to do with "Vasilisa" and I would be very glad if I could send it to you. Hell told me (don´t wonder, he is just my husband) that he had your email address, so I suppose, you should have his one and could send the normal address. I think you and Kenneth will like my gift.
Are you agreed?

That would be lovely, Anna. Thank you!

That might explain why Hell helped me out when I got confused about your user number.

I did an entry on Money a while ago and it had a very rough ride in Peer Review. I took it out and set up a University entry, which I haven't had the time or energy to do yet. Have you seen A Girl Called Ben's entry on 'Money and the Power of Belief'?

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Thank you for the address, I´ll try to send the announced gift tomorrow. And about my money-project: it deals only with etymology. Let´s see if the peers will like it or not.
See you later. Banana

Thank you, Anna.

I'll look forward to seeing the entry.

Anna!

For the musical box. It is and I love it!

Nice to hear that it arrived safely (We had serious doubts on the German Postal Service). Isn´t it wonderful that everything has connections with everything? You just have to keep eyes open for all the signs which life is giving you.
Anna Banana

Very much so, Anna!

It arrived safe and sound - mind you, it had been well protected.

I'm going to meet someone tomorow where the synchronicities are amazing. Someone I should not have been destined to meet. Wish me well!

My dear , sorry, but Hell had captured the internet lap-top for boasting on the last conference of boring chemists, so I couldn´t read Your last posting. Anyway, I wish You all the best. Ah, why are You sure, there is somebody You should not have been destined to meet? I mean, it is quite impossible, that me (Russian girl) come to Germany and meet a Brazilian guy on a Russian-Brazilian party and that we fall in love at first sight and he asks me after half an hour of talking, if I would marry him. I knew at the moment, that he is the right one, someone who fits. Or what is the impossibility degree of meeting another Russian Anna married with Brazilian guy in Munich? There are quite a lot 'impossible' things and we have a lot of friends who should not be together, but they are. Uph, I believe in casuality and its play. Perhaps its destiny. Tell me if it has gone off smoothly.
Another question: Have you and Kenneth already eaten ginger bread? Do you celebrate Christmas? (Your name is not quite English, I guess)

Hi Anna,

No it's Sanskrit - it means Angel of Womanhood - it's my spiritual name and yes, I am English.

I have eaten gingerbread, but I'm not sure about Kenneth. Yes, we celebrate Christmas.

Well, the meeting hasn't had the outcome of the possibility of a partnership. We met at Stonehenge and had a really lovely day. However, he could not cope with a woman who wanted to be equal - quote:

'i am the boss , and that is the way it is . yes i can share... but i have the last word'.

That's not for me. I need to be equal and respected in a relationship. He was the first person I have been out with on a proper date in seven years that I have liked. The couple that I had met before, I did not find remotely attractive. However, meeting him has been very insightful for me.

I like your story! I also believe in destiny. I actually feel more confident now that I have 'tested the water'. I felt happy and attractive and this was from inside, not from without.

Dear , thank you for the explanation, I think you have a very rich spiritual life and its wonderful. It´s also nice to know, there is an angel taking care especially of women. Well as for the meeting and the most of men, they are as they are, the most important thing is you are feeling good and are sure about your feminine attractivity. I hope somebody will come and fit (our Hellriegels´ term for people who´ve found the second half) you. I wonder, how do you manage a child, a job?, h2g2 and spiritual studies. We don´t have any or very little time due to the both , only in the night, or, Hell writes and researches in the university.
As for the partnerships, I also have had a sad experience. Fortunately it was not 'personal' but of the 'spiritual'-kind partnership: with a society of reformed Jews, where the women can also be Rabbies, you know? They didn't want me to become a member, just because I am from the ex-USSR and they thought, I can't pay the annual subscription fee. Quite discriminating. I´ve never said that I don't have enough money, they didn't even ask if I was poor - And it should not be really important in this case.
Sorry, I haven´t mentioned that the best ginger bread is coming from Nurenberg (as my favourite painter Albrecht Dürer) and it could be a subject for a nice entry about the German Christmas meals. We´ve thought, we should celebrate Anti-Christmas with a skeleton of a tree, some rubbish on it and without any gifts. It´s getting too commercial and has lost any meaning. What do you think?
And about the curious things in life and meeting right people: just wait a bit. The most important and right you´ve already got, haven´t you? His name is Kenneth. I think all the time about the bonds between a mother and her child. We are so dulled with our 'civilization' that most of us don`t feel the connection.
That was a long reply. I hope you are not to tired of reading this stuff.
Your Anna Banana in need of 10,000 hours of sleep

Tell me about it! I was just about to go to bed when I saw your posting, which is very welcome!

Like you, I need 10,000 hours of sleep - I tend to feel tired much of the time. How do I fit it all in - I don't know!

Actually, I'm feeling very confused at the moment. All the signs pointed to something special, however I could never partner myself to anyone who has such patronising and sexist attitudes to women. Perhaps its just a question of waiting. And yes, I do have Kenneth. However he tells me I am not enough. When I told him that the problem was that this man did not want a relationship because he wanted to be the boss, he said 'Well, he can be the boss on the wedding day and you can be the boss the day after. The day after he can be boss and you again the next day'.

When I had picked myself up from the ground, I realised that he was saying something really profound - about sharing responsibility and I was touched. He was looking forward to having a father and a brother.

I, too, would be sad if I had experienced that kind of thoughtless rejection. There is obviously a prejudice against Russian Jews (I'm assuming from what you said that you are Jewish?).

I like the idea of a non-consumer Christmas. Somewhere I have a list of things to give, or to do, that are anti-consumerist. I think the tree should have some lights on it, though, don't you thing? Unfortunately, I would not be able to get away with that in the case of little Kenneth. He would feel most hard done to if he had no presents!

When I was in Germany on an exchange visit, I got to eat some gingerbread. I don't know if it came from Nurenberg, though.

I wish you pleasant dreams

Well, I think if he is the right man, it doesn´t matter who´ll be the boss or think he is the boss. The women are so much cleverer in this way and the men are just simple creatures, but... I also remember us (me and my sister) asking our mum, why didn´t she marry a certain man. We thought he would be a good father and we needed one, but our poor mum didn´t like him. It wasn´t her right man, so she didn´t marry him. I understand Kenneth´s thoughts very good, I think boys do need a father figure even more than girls, but if the man doesn´t fit you you will be unhappy and it won´t be nice. I hope, he didn´t hurt you too much. One day the right one will come, you´ll see.

Well, the Anti-Christmas is a really nice idea, but since we have children or since our parents have become grands it´s a bit complicated. You are right, I am Russian Jewish, but very sacularised. Even my grands don´t speak Yiddish and Hebrew. I think that the Gnostic has quite interesting ideas and of course, I would like to learn to feel the nature, to understand it and myself, but now it´s impossible because of the lack of time. Now my religion is the children, their education, their well-being.

Did you learn German? Ginger bread as well as other Christmas cakes are very tasty and I think, Kenneth should find some o it under the Christmas tree.

I think I have learned a bit more about myself because of it. I'm sure that no experience is ever wasted. Maybe it wasn't the right time for me. I intend staying positive about it and after all, I had a rather nice day out and saw Stonehenge. It was too soon really to find out whether he might have been suitable. I think it takes time to get to know someone that well. I think I frightened him and I also think he wasn't ready. He was still bitter about his previous wives.

Yes, Kenneth does need a father figure, or a role model or a mentor (preferably more than one). He tells me I'm not enough!

Never say too late, Anna! There's always time in the future.

Yes, I learned German. At one time, I could speak it quite well. Now, I can manage to make myself understood reasonably easily, although I understand far more than I can speak. The longer I'm with someone who is German speaking, the better I get. It's mostly the vocabulary that I've forgotten. I've met Bossel twice at h2g2 meets, and although he is much better at English than I am at German, I can mostly understand him when he talks, except when he uses what sounds like dialect. Then I'm completely lost! He and Trillians Child were speaking German to each other and I understood most of it.

Yes, I think it would be nice for Kenneth to find gingerbread under the Christmas tree. I must get some for him.

What do you intend to do for Christmas?

First of all, I´ve wrote about the ginger bread, because I think it´s my gift for Kenneth, not yours. We´ve have been invited by Hell´s parents to spend Christmas in their house and there are no excuses for this time. I become slighty paranoic thinking about all the mountains of presents the children will get.

Nice to know that you also speak German, isn´t it funny? I still haven´t seen Bossel, but have heard a lot and I have to admit that if the people speak any dialect I´m lost too.

Would it help if Kenneth will go to a sport club? Or something else?

Stay positive, it is really difficult to give advises in this case. I don´t have lot of experience in man-woman relationships, but I believe in the theory of two halves. One just have to wait, the life will bring him/her.

The next week I won´t be online, as Hell has to take our internet lap-top to Berlin, where another chemical conference will take place.

Yours Anna Banana

Thant's told me! Thank you, Anna, how kind.

Yes, I can sympathise. If children get mountains of presents, it seems to me that the lose the ability to appreciate them. Then there's the question of where to store them. I have been giving away lots of things that he's now too old for. Some of the larger ones have gone to his school which runs a breakfast club and an after school club, which means that he is looked after before and after school, so that I can work a full day.

I hope that you have a really lovely time with Hell's parents at Christmas. Maybe you can suggest to them that they give fewer carefully chosen presents?

I've always found that speaking German is a positive advantage. People don't expect it, and when I used to be able to take holidays abroad, it often meant that we got to meet German people and have fun.

I'm intending Kenneth to go to Taekwando classes, which I think should help him with personal organisation. He goes swimming each Saturday and also to the Saturday Club, which is held at the Borough Library.

Like you, I also won't be on-line next week as it's half term here, which means that school is out and I will be going to the Isle of Wight to see my parents. I hope my dad will be out of hospital then and that we'll know what the problem is. (He collapsed a couple of weeks ago and had a heart attack a week later.)

As to the man/woman thing, at the moment, I'm just going to take my time and know that somewhere there is someone for me and when the right time comes we will find each other.

I have news! My dad is out of hospital and all is well. He had a small blockage in an artery, which they have blown away. I'm so grateful. The prayers have indeed been answered!

Hallo, dear , nice to hear that your dad is in good health. To what god have you prayed that it worked out?
That´s nice, that Kenneth is doing so much besides the school, but does he also have any contact to his father or any other male person he has trust in? Otherwise I know a lot of stories of families where the relation between the father and his son was not good, even destructing. Otherwise the life is as it is and it will bring only the best things to the little .
I have to do quite a lot with this new entry about the evolution, this means that it will take some sleepless nights. Let´s go.
Anna (still without the smiley for Banana)

Well, Anna, the news about my father is not now so good. He was only home one night and was rushed back to hospital the next day. He has an infection in the lungs. He appears to be weaker now than he was before. As he's had a lot of time in hospital (almost a month), he's finding it more difficult to walk. I went to see him in hospital over the half term and gave him some finger exercises (he'd started not to be able to hold his knife and fork), which have helped and some feet exercises. I also did some yoga nidra with him to get some body awareness back. I suspect this may be a process, although the doctors didn't say it was his age, so there may yet be hope.

Little does not see his father often - he is very unreliable and had mental health problems at the time I knew him, although I didn't know that at the time. I am sincerely glad that he got married to someone else.

At present, no, there is a shortage of male role models for him. He tells me often he wants me to get married so that he can have a father. I've told him that they don't grow on trees and that he will have to wait until I find someone who will be good for both of us.

I went to Quaker meeting this morning and arrived early, as I had forgotten that the clocks go back here today, so I'm having a very long day.

How was your week? Good luck with the entry!

(and I hope you get a banana smiley!)

Good evening, , how is your father? Is he getting better? It is not nice to become ill because of a stay in a hospital, there are these so-called hospital infections and they are quite dangerous because of being more resistable to medicines. I wish him all the best and recover soon.

I don´t know much about the Quakers, only that they, sorry, you are a kind of Protestants and in the USA they were against the slavery and helped black Americans to escape to Canada. And what about Sanscrit? I´ve thought you are involved in a circle of Indian religios spirituality.

Last week my Mama was here, helping with our two little and this week my mother-in-law (awfull word) is here as our daughter will become two years old tomorrow and there will be a great party on Saturday. So I have to organize it and cook for 15 persons Szegediner Gulash (Hungarian meal), which is very tasty and simple to make.

I swear, I won´t write any entries more until the children are two and three. I am so tired . Hell is guilty of this, as he has showed me h2g2.

Bye-bye, see (read) you later,

Anna