Meeting My Niece: It Wouldn't Be Fair!

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It's been a hot minute since I b*ched about a small part of my life. Except, in this case, I don't see this as a small part of my life.

Here it goes...

So my sister is having a baby — a girl — at the end of the year and I'm DYING to meet her. My new niece! I mean, I already have nieces and nephews, but this one would be my first HUMAN niece that isn't covered in fur or has four legs. It means a lot to me that I get to meet her, that we get to spend Christmss day with my sister and her husband's family.

I asked for a little over a month off at my job so I could make that happen. A job that I can't stand, but at least they're kind enough to allow me to take that extra time off. I'm grateful for that, of course.

Mom contacted my Godmother, who works at Costco, and asked if she could get me a job there. But the thing is, if I apply now and I get the job, I won't be able to meet my niece.

There's no way in hell that that's not happening. I'm going to meet my niece when she's born. I've had daydreams, scenarios playing out in my head where I apply hand sanitizer to my hands before holding her for the first time, where I read the Bible to her or talk to her in that annoying baby voice. Those scenarios are GOING to come true, whether my mom likes it or not.

She said to me that, this weekend, we should apply for Costco. I said back, in my head because I still need to work up the courage to say this out loud to her, that, as long as it gets in the way of me meeting my niece, I think not.

I would much rather suck it up at my current job and still be able to meet my new niece than work at a new job that won't let me. I'm sorry, mom (ha! Psych! No, I'm not), but I'm meeting my new niece.

*sighs*

Okay, that's it. I'm done b*tching :)