It's not you, it's me. Really!

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you. Brent Runyon, The Burn Journals

Boy isn't this the truth. This is so me - and so typical of an introvert I think, even outgoing ones like me. I've been places and spotted people I know and I have gone down aisles and backed up and changed my course just so I don't have to interact with them if I'm not feeling up to it. It almost always has nothing to do with the person but everything to do with me and my preference to be by myself - even in a store full of people. Maybe you can relate to this - if so you have at least a little introvertness in you. Maybe you can't relate on any part to this - my guess is you are extroverted. :) And both are okay and acceptable.
I love having people in my life, I love having my "circles" but I'm pretty inward, more so than most people guess, and so I crave time by myself and I know when I enter into public I risk seeing someone I know. And I love knowing people and interacting with them...as long as I can initiate. If you've ever run into me out and about and initiated with me and I've seemed slightly off and awkward it's most likely because I just wasn't feeling like interacting. But I have to grocery shop and run errands and so that puts me out there - exposed. :) So if we've run into each other and I've been weird I'm sorry. I truly am and I hope you will be believe me when I say "it's not you, it's me."
What about you? Where do you fall on this balance beam of introvert versus extrovert?

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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.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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