Day 41: Spontaneity

Today I was grateful for spontaneity, which I rarely practice given my Type A tendencies. But every so often I can, and do, embrace it and am always pleasantly surprised at what happens when I allow it. Today was definitely one of those days. My friend, Stephanie, that I am visiting here in Seattle along with her daughter Emily and myself headed to EMP for a day of museum indulging. We had tickets for a 5 pm Duck tour so we were planing on taking our time. But then. Then riding up in an elevator from the parking garage the people next to us mentioned BrickCon going on right there. We three eyed each other for about 10 seconds and said, "Let's go! We'll still have time for EMP" and off we went to search out BrickCon, which is awesome because Lego's are awesome. On our way to BrickCon we heard about another festival, the Northwest Tea Festival on the same grounds. That was another no brainer, we three love tea! We squeezed in lunch at a place none of us had ever been, Pie, and still managed to fit a highlights of EMP into our suddenly crazy day before heading off to the Ducks. It was all so spontaneous and ended up being so much fun. Embracing spontaneity is good for this Type A heart.

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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