The days are too short!

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burrough

Amen and amen again to today's quote! I feel like this often. What's the "solution"? Live fully in each day with as few regrets as possible. Be intentional with your relationships, your health, what you choose to dwell on. And for heaven's sake read a book! :)

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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