What A Beautiful Day

This song reminds me, us, to celebrate our days with people. I love how this song celebrates relationships. It reminds me of a friend, Dan, who regularly posts on Facebook how many months he has been married to his wife and how grateful he is for that. Too often we get so wrapped up in the day to day grind that we forget to celebrate the presence of people in our lives. For me this song is a reminder to do that. When we forget to celebrate people is when we also forget to be grateful for what they add into our lives, when we forget to consider their words, their hearts, and their feelings.

Let's see, today is right around Lanny and I's 6,205 day together! I clearly remember day 1, this quiet guy who had a cute butt! HAHAHAHAHA! Too much info? Too bad! :)

Have a great Friday and don't forget to celebrate the people in your life today!

What A Beautiful Day

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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