TIME TO GET A FLU SHOT....OOOOH MY!

Hello everybody...Mahalo (huh?). Whoa-today is gong to be a challenging day. Tom said that since I was under the streets of Hollywood for so long, I may have been exposed to a variety of icky. He checked me for lice and for the creeping crud, but he said that I couldn't be sure about other things too small to see. Then he said that I might be contagious with things that other people might get and that that is what contagious means and that I needed to be a considerate monkey and get a flu shot. When he found me in my hiding place the next day he said that it wouldn't hurt because I was a stuffed animal and that when I was made, I was made without nerves and so he said "really-it won't hurt". My cousin Kathryn also said that it wouldn't hurt and she is a nurse, so I stopped making a fuss and off we went through the snow to the shot place. We knew it was the shot place because there was a sign.

We went inside the place and a lady in a white dress said "don't worry little monkey-this won't hurt a bit, let me show you". Then she held up a thing like I had never seen before and I screamed and tried to run but they caught me and she said "Really little monkey, do you remember when the grandma with the glasses on a chain around her neck made you and she kept sticking a needle with a thread attached into and out of your body? That didn't hurt....did it?" And then she held up the thing again and I remembered that needles do hurt and I looked at it and I wanted to cry.......

The lady in the white dress said, "There, there, little monkey-this will be over before you know" and she poked me with the needle and IT WENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH MY ARM AND CAME OUT THE OTHER SIDE......WHOA (Kathryn lied) AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING.....for the first time in my life, I didn't know what to say..........

But it got better-lots better. The lady in the white dress put a big wrappy thing around my arm and kissed me on the head and then she gave me TWO lolly pops...whoa, two.

I was a happy monkey......with a sore arm...but happy nonetheless. When I got home I was even happier!!!!!

Judy and Tom got me the biggest box of chocolates ever (and I'm not going to share) and they got me two avocados (and I'm not going to share) and they got me a six pack of beer (and I'm not going to share) and two bananas (and I'm not going to share) and two boxes of Cocoa Puffs. 

I'm going to smash the Cocoa puffs with my feet and turn them into chocolate wine-Yum.

Well-that's how my flu shot went so if anybody wants to come over and play checkers with me (Lisa?) then you can do so without fear of flu the next day...I am a considerate little monkey....with a very sore arm and an elevated caloric intake. I'll be back in a week or so with my update on the chocolate wine. Bye-Love *<[:(I)