For Thursday, May 12: The Way I Am

Ingrid Michaelson is quickly becoming a favorite. She seems to be representative of the kind of music I am leaning towards the past couple of years. More mellow, simple.
Today's song made Michaelson big because Old Navy picked it up for a commerical series back a couple of years ago and it seems people were finding themselves humming the song and asking Old Navy who it was. Just goes to show you'll never know how you will make it big. :)
I love the lyrics (of course) of this song. It makes me think of Lanny and I. How he can look at me and desire me (hey, I'm just being real and he IS my hub!) after seeing me in the early morning hours or living with me for the past 15 years just blows me away! But he really loves me the way I am. And I love him the way he is. What a blessed thing to have in a marriage or even just a relationship!

The Way I Am

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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.

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.

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