#SneakAwaySunday

How far away are you willing to drive for your #SneakAwaySunday ? My radius extends to no more than an hour away or else I am spending my sneak away on the road instead of rejuvenating. You have to decide what's right for you.

I love wandering a place filled with books - library or bookstore. I love taking my time going through the aisles of some store that I rarely get to go to. Sometimes I sneak away to public places where I can still be by myself. But, for me, they have to be places that I am 99.9% sure nobody I know is going to show up or I'm going to run into. Something about being on a sneak away but surrounded by people I don't need to interact with serves the need to renew from time to time. Plus, I get creative ideas depending on the store I wander through, or I add books to my ever growing to-read list. If I'm in a bookstore or library chances are good I'll find a place to sit and I'll read for awhile. I'll treat myself to something yummy to drink and eat.

When I head home my to-read list is larger - never a bad thing in my opinion - and I feel more creative. I feel ready to head into a new week.

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.

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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