Day 324: A Cute Dress

(For Wednesday July 16)

Sometimes a girl just needs to put on a cute dress and feel a little different. Men, this Gratitude Attitude is probably not going to be something you relate to UNLESS there is a male equivalent to this. I gulped hard this morning and put on a dress that I bought about a month ago. It's super cute, I like it a lot but I've been hesitating for a few reasons. But today I donned the dress and went to work. I loved wearing that dress today! I'm not sure I looked all that cute but I felt a little cute. And sometimes I just need to feel a little cute. Now, let's not get crazy. I still managed my time so poorly that I didn't do a thing with my hair nor did I wear an ounce of make-up but I did shave my legs so I figure that counts for something. I'm really grateful for my inner spirit that I wore the cute dress today, I think my heart needed it. Weird right? That a heart could need what a cute dress does for a person? Weird or not it's what happened and I am grateful.

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.

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.

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.

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