Day 262: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Otis Spunkmeyer said, "Happiness is a fresh baked cookie."
There's no argument here with that statement! I am a cookie fan. I found out this morning that today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. And when I found that out I felt happy! It's such a simple thing that makes me feel grateful. I feel grateful that I can have a cookie and share cookies with others and watch them light up because of a cookie! I put two kinds of chocolate chip cookies in my workplace kitchen and it turned into this loud, laughing, light moment for several of my co-workers. I sat on a stool and just watched. It was super fun to observe. I felt grateful for the moment of smiles the cookies provided and I got to witness. There was laughter and chatting and fist bumps...all because of a chocolate chip cookie. Now who couldn't be grateful for that?!

Comments

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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