Day 6: September exhausts me...already!

Today is one of those days where I'm having a hard time coming up with something specific. It's not that I am ungrateful today, I'm just...tired. And when I'm tired I have a hard time being aware and alert to life around me.
Earlier today I organized our calendar for the month of September. I think it might have been the final nail in the coffin of tired. We are B.U.S.Y. in September! Wow. But I look at it all and I can see where there are opportunities for relationship building, community building, life lessons in perseverance, furthering developing gifts the redheads have, etc and so while I am exhausted looking at it I am grateful for what is to come in the month of September. I am grateful that we have a life outside our four walls and that life is full of moments and memories with people. Maybe I'm putting too much stock in the filled days to come this month but maybe I'm also willing to have the eyes of my heart and mind wide open so as to not miss what moments and memories I'm supposed to take in. So yes, I'm grateful for a full and busy month ahead.

(Someone please remind me of this when I get whiny by the end of this week! Gracias! *wink*)

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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