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Sassy Colombian said:
Good morning, mascoteers!

I hope everyone’s day is going well. I went to sleep before 9 pm last night with the desire to wake up early to make it to the gym and begin again my morning routine but it is snowing outside, after days of warm weather winter decided to show up today. So no school or work for my daughter or me today. However, I have a busy day ahead of me. When I was traveling in CR my supervisor contacted about a job opening that she thought I should pursue. It is a full time advising position but with a different department that will be mostly working with high school students wanting to enroll at my college. Since she notified me I’ve been ambivalent about applying because it would change our plans to go on our road trip throughout Europe this summer. But after many years of being a full time mom, I had also decided that after coming back from our European trip that I would be ready to pursue a FT job and resume my career goals at my college. However, this job option is coming my way several months early than I wanted to and I been having a hard time knowing what to do. I really was looking forward to our trip for many reasons, I wanted us to visit my brother in Belgium, I also wanted to visit some friends in Spain and then meet some of you in the U.K. along with going to an Everton game at Goodison. Moreover, I thought it would be the perfect time for our daughter to have such cultural experience before she begins middle school. But not applying for this position would be silly of my part as it is an amazing career opportunity for me to assist the high school Latino population that wants to enroll in College. Moreover, the pay and benefits is more than I have ever made working in public education and it will allow husband and I to save money for retirement and for our daughter’s college tuition. But then I will have to postpone our trip and working full time will change our family lives as for the past decade I have been the one fully in charged of our household tasks while the hubby works long hours during the week. So I’m confused and trying to decide what to do but the application deadline is Thursday. Thus today I’m going to be pondering my options and begin the application just in case I decide to pursue this opportunity. Anyway, I wanted to share this with you in case I’m absent the next few days then you know it’s because I’m having to concentrate on this task.

Cheers! Xx
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Wjen it cmes down to it Sass, you do what's right for you and your family. I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
The Everton forum is not a great place at the moment. You can fight and argue with whoever you want but trying to have a laugh is now frowned upon. Same happened to me in the Benitez thread last time I posted in there back in November and I actually received a 3 day ban which they lifted after a few hours for some reason. There is zero tolerance in there. So, as you say, best to keep our larking about for this thread Sass. ;)
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For some strange reason I read that in a Kenneth Williams ( Carry on ) voice ..."stop all this messin about".

Wasn't that one of his catchphrases?
 

Terrarian said:
The saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means that you shouldn't criticize a gift, even if you don't like it very much. A gift horse, in other words, is a gift.

The term gift horse is pretty easy to remember if you imagine the horse as a present. The idiom itself probably stems from the practice of determining a horse's age from looking at its teeth. It would be rude to receive a horse for your birthday and immediately examine its mouth in front of the person who gave it to you, as if you were trying to figure out the value of your gift.
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Ha ha. I was close. :p
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Thanks for the advise, Terrain. I probably will, it is not for sure that I will get the job anyway but no trying for it will not be very wise of me either.

What a say, now I’m very curious about how that say started.
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Back in the day...way back...If somebody gave you a horse...a valuable commodity, you didnt open its mouth to check how old it was - it was a horse and thus valuable.
 

jazzy said:
I may well be wrong with this in which case I'm sure that the intelligentsia will correct me but here goes.

Tuppence is slang for two pence ( think cents ).

In the olden days whenever you went for professional advice ( Dr etc ) two pence was the minimum payment.

Hence tuppence worth is associated with advice or ones thoughts on a lmatter.
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There's another meaning Jazzy. Google tuppence slang. ;)
 

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