Malinger
MEANING:
verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
P,
Welcome back. Sorry I missed your call - I was at the Gamble Calcutta. You were missed.
Cobby is just back from Asia as well so I will await word from him before I make any plans today. He has a small window of free time before he gets back in the grind.
I would enjoy a ride but it looks like there could be some frosty pavement out there as well. Not exactly California dreaming. Call when you are up, W
Glad you made it home safely! Xoxo
Welcome back. Sorry I missed your call - I was at the Gamble Calcutta. You were missed.
Cobby is just back from Asia as well so I will await word from him before I make any plans today. He has a small window of free time before he gets back in the grind.
I would enjoy a ride but it looks like there could be some frosty pavement out there as well. Not exactly California dreaming. Call when you are up, W
Glad you made it home safely! Xoxo
Hello Digitale and Fingare!
Thanks again, ever so much, for your unstinting hospitality and friendship. Lovely stay, once again! Trip back went very smoothly and I enjoyed driving on dry roads for a change. (Thanks again for java and wonderful salami and cheese and crackers. I munched, happily, almost all the way home!) Had to wait an hour at the border but otherwise everything went like clockwork. A bit of dipsy doodling to find Windward Drive in Belllingham as my Garmin Goil couldn't bring up street. Turned out it is in one of those developments off a golf course, Sudden Valley, so perhaps that is the reason. More through good luck than management, I happened across a local Tourist Information Centre and chap there was very helpful in setting me straight. Wine stored, I headed for the Peace Arch.
Funnily
enough, I was home only a few minutes before Coriandre. We'd just about
unpacked our bags when her sister, Pam, and her colleague, Loreen, from
Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, respectively, arrived for dinner. In town on
business, Canadian Grain Commission, they have been in Vancouver since
this past Sunday. Chloë came for dinner, as wella s Clara and Dusty, so
it was a family reunion. Flamin' and Sarge came up for a drink before
they had to leave to curl. Everyone asked after you both and wanted me
to send best wishes and Christmas tidings along.Coolish day, 3ºC, so it was quite brisk when I went for my ride around Stanley Park:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/412304878#.Up_OUHUaRF4.email
Another cold day forecast for the morrow so I hope to ride a bit earlier. In the evening we have tickets to hear Khaled Hosseini in conversation with The Globe and Mail's Marsha Lederman. He is probably best known for The Kite Runner and his latest novel is And The Mountains Echoed "a multigenerational-family story revolving around brothers and sisters, and the ramifications of their lives and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos. It is an emotional, provocative, and unforgettable novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations."
Hi Jo-Anne and Colin!
Trust you are both well. Not sure if you have decided upon best date for dinner at our place but if the 12th works for you both, that is best day for Cora Lee. The 11th is still fine if that is best for you. Just let me know and we'll plan accordingly. Fondestos and Cheers, Patrizzio!
Pat, thanks for thinking
of us. The sisterhood will have to decline. I forgot Kerry has an
appointment tomorrow at 5PM and Tia has dance at 7:00. Enjoy, W
Dear Patrick,The VWF has five promo codes for passes (for two) to a special advance screening of the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The details of the screening are below. We will pass along the codes and the link to the registration page to the first five people who reply back to this email. Good luck!
Thursday, December 5, 2013 Show Time: 7:00 PM International Village 88 West Pender Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9 Vancouver Writers Fest
Dear RBC: On October 21st, 2013, I made an online payment of $122.46 to my Amex Card. Due to a misunderstanding, on my part, I believed the sum would be applied to my Costco Amex card but apparently the money was never applied to this card. In order to rectify the situation, on October 28th, I paid the overdue amount at the RBC Broadway and Cambie Branch, for which I have the stamped receipt. All of the this arose and was further complicated by the fact that both Amex cards were cancelled while I away on holiday, in Europe.
I would very much appreciate having the $122.46, paid on October 21st, deposited into my chequing account.
Let me thank you, in advance, for your attention to this matter. Cheers, Patrick Dunn!
P,Welcome back. Sorry I missed your call - I was at the Gamble Calcutta. You were missed.
Cobby is just back from Asia as well so I will await word from him before I make any plans today. He has a small window of free time before he gets back in the grind.
I would enjoy a ride but it looks like there could be some frosty pavement out there as well. Not exactly California dreaming. Call when you are up. W
Glad you made it home safely! Xoxo
"From a young age, we teach children to say, 'Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.' But this isn't true. Bullying hurts so much not because one individual is rejecting us but because we tend to believe that the bully speaks for others that if we are being singled out by the bully, then we are probably unliked and unwanted by most.
"Using fMRI scanning technology,
neuroscientists have determined that the same part of the brain that
processes physical pain -- a cut or a punch -- also processes emotional
pain such as exclusion, rejection
or lost love. It is known as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex
(dACC).
So it no accident that we refer to emotional pain with physical
references -- "it was like a punch in the gut" or "she broke my heart"
-- and the effects on the brain can be as or more
devastating." Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, CROWN, 2013
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