For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook know that I'd been having a lot of anger (and some hurt) towards work issues for the past few weeks. It had gotten so bad that I had a major meltdown today where a coworker had to stop me (physically) from leaving and tell me that SHE appreciates what I do for everyone.
Because of my meltdown, I was allowed to leave work early (ok'd by my former supervisor). After spending about a half hour saying hello to all of my babies (and cleaning up their messes) and then changing my clothes, I went back to Pookie and asked if he wanted to come out to play, that I really needed hugs from him because I had a really bad day. He looked up at me, then at my hand (that was down at his level waiting for him to climb up on), the up at me again, but this time with sad puppy dog eyes, then he slowly climbed up onto my hand and up my arm. I picked him up, held him against my chest, and lightly hugged him. That's when he reached up and gave me two very gentle kisses on my chin. At fist I thought he was eating my hair, but when I looked down, he didn't have any hair in his mouth and his head was a couple of inches below my chin. Of course, I immediately hugged him tighter and told him that I loved him, and that's when he gave me another kiss.
Nearly 5 hours later, he's still snuggled on me. I love my Pookie sooo much!