Day 302: Shuffle Feature

Sometimes even this Type A chick needs to mix it up and not go straight down the list. So I'm grateful for the shuffle feature on our various electronics and playlist sites like Spotify. Shuffle provides some variety, mixes it up, keeps things from being predictable. And because it is me thinking about this my brain took it further than the obvious...of course! It may be a stretch but this Type A chick doesn't need just her music shuffled from time to time, I need my life to be shuffled from time to time. When I hit shuffle on my life the outcome is usually, okay always, chaotic at best and disastrous at worst. But when God hits shuffle on my life it may feel chaotic or disastrous or anything in between those but the outcome is always fantastic, better than anything I could have hoped for. I've learned, after almost a decade of God hitting shuffle on my life, that when it's time to shuffle I am grateful because he has nothing but good for me in it.

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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