For Thursday, August 4: Little Moments

So Brad Paisley has landed on this experiment a time or two already BUT I had to do this song. HAD TO. I love this song and I love the video to it almost as much! It's so worth watching while you are listening to the song. It reminds me of "When Harry Met Sally" and the couple interviews that are scattered throughout the movie. I love those couple interviews. Paisley takes the idea and incorporates it into this video and at the end the couple interview is with him and his wife, Kimberly Williams.
I have heard this song lots and had even seen the video before (I realized when I started to watch it again the other day) but I really loved watching the video and listening to the song with Lanny. :) My sweet husband can relate to every single little weird thing the women in this video express and almost everything Brad Paisley sings about. Appreciation in marriage comes from the small, little things not the grandiose. I'm fortunate to have a man who "likes" (puts up with?) all my weird stuff and really believes he loves me for them! (Ha! Boy do I have him tricked!) Sometimes I do or say something that I know drives Lanny nuts (and not in the good way) but yet within minutes, sometimes seconds, he's letting me know how much he loves me. It's the little moments. Mark my words, Lanny and I are gonna be one of those couples in a couple interview like in the movie or in a video someday! And you know what? I hope you and your spouse will be too! Have fun with each other and enjoy the ride!

Little Moments

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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