Day 280: Making Memories

(For Monday June 2)

Today I got on a plane and headed back to Colorado after a weekend of making memories in New York City with my family that lives there. I'm so grateful for the moments life hands me to make memories of. I'm so grateful when I take advantage of those moments and don't shrink back from them! I think sometimes making the memories is up to us - if we are willing to enter into the moments or if we shrink back from them because of insecurities, fears, etc. What kind of memories are you grateful you have made?

Comments

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.

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.

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