Skip to main content

January 17, 2015

National Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day
January 17 is the most common day to give up on New Year's Resolutions. If you've already given up maybe they weren't realistic or too lofty.  Before you give up your resolutions for good this year read on and maybe you'll be motivated to start anew or keep going.
Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Doomed Before You Even Begin – Unless…
The Science of New Year's Resolutions: Why 88% Fail and How to Make Them Work
Already giving up on what you resolved to do January 1? Maybe these 6 resolutions will be more realistic to tackle: 6 New Year's Resolutions That Don't Take All Damn Year To Accomplish
3 Apps to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

The resolutions are made...

And then the resolutions are broken...or at least one of them breaks...





National Cable Car Day
The Invention of the Cable Car
The Cable Car Cocktail (for adults only)


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

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.