Don't ask me to own your lack

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. Unknown

If you can't plan ahead and do as much as possible on your end then don't place the burden of your lack on someone else. Really. It is rude, insensitive, and selfish. Additionally, if you dream up some "great idea" and feel the urgency to get it done yesterday then do it yourself and do not place the burden on others. If others have to be involved then breathe and attempt to think clearly instead of forcing others to alter their work or plans for you. Could you be any more selfish?
It's probably fairly obvious that this is one of those things that frustrates me. People are so self-absorbed these days that even their work they put ahead of anyone else's responsibilities. And trying to make someone else own your lack of preparedness is rude. So if you want to wait until last minute or not prepare at all and then come to me seeking assistance you may, or may not, get it. But if you do get it be warned it will be on my timeline not your panic driven one. I'm all about the "can do attitude" but you have to realize that if you want the help of others then you have to do your part as well.

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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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