speaking of work, my broken sister, and jesus

Below are some pictures of my beautiful sister (with extra beauty) stuck in bed for a total of 6 days now. Last night we finally celebrated our birthday with our friends. We are going to the Feist concert tomorrow in Kansas City without my sister's company because of her broken back. I'm sad she can't be there - she's always the one out of my group of friends that is crazy and fearless (well, besides Leah). The rest of us are more reserved together...it's kind of funny how 'life of the party' Michelle is. I love and admire that quality in people because I have zero 'life of the party' in me. I always find myself trying not to inconvenience anyone, always trying not to cause a scene, being quite in big groups, etc. My not inconveniencing anyone is to a fault too - even in silly situations like driving or shopping etc. Or like dropping in on someone to say hi even if I bet they would want me to. Le sigh, I need to inconvenience some people this week and practice. :) Okay maybe not...but at least work on that fear of man element in it.
Anyway, that was a bunny trail... This week has been a good one to transition back into time here. Work has been good - I think I'm going to like the job a lot and it will be pretty relaxing - esp. comparitively speaking to the chocolate factory. My goodness - I laugh when i think about it. I am the department head over Personal Care there so it's a lot of learning about products like lotion, makeup, body wash, shampoo, facial stuff, etc...I know nothing about any of those by the way. I think I bought my first bottle of lotion about 6 months ago. But all of the products are natural. Very cool. Very interesting. And at times -probably more times than not - very hippie. Yesterday I helped an 80 year old woman (not a hippy) find some powder for her face (and she had quite the skin - she told me all about the vitamins she takes to help it), helped her put it on, and then stood there and talked about Jesus and prayer for 15 minutes.
Speaking of Jesus - I find myself not thinking about much these days except how to be near Him. It's nice but that holy desire and longing to be with Him is sort of haunting. I just can't get enough. Which I know is a wonderful thing.