Take Your Elf to Work Day, Part 3

Since Take Your Elf to Work Day was an official holiday, Prim got a look at the rarely seen staff areas of the Learning Center. 

Prim is officially in the building:

First stop.  Meeting up with Queen Elizabeth in the Principal Librarian's office.  Notice their matching white gloves.     

Second stop.  Playing around with the copier. 

Third stop.  Hanging out with Hammy, the dancing birthday hamster in the Literacy Coordinator's office. 

Fourth stop.  Break time in the staff lounge. 

Last stop. Admiring the magnets collected by staff members during their world travels. 

Whew!  What a day, Prim.  You must be exhausted.  But maybe the outgoing mail box isn't the best place to rest... 

Take Your Elf to Work Day, Part 2

Whew!  Glad that elevator worked.  It's been working for a while now, but all it took was for the elevator to get stuck twice (about three and a half years ago), and the trusting relationship between elevator and staff has forever been broken. 

Once Prim saw all that there was to see in Literacy Services, she headed downstairs to check out (library pun intended) Bilingual Services.

First, I made her study the library's Rules of Conduct.  She found the one that prohibits patrons from having "bodily hygiene that is offensive and disturbing to others" to be especially entertaining.   

 

Since none of the rules prohibited Prim from hanging on signs, playing in the book drop, and getting cuddly with some of the displays, that's exactly what she did:

(I spy, with my little eye, something red...)

Obviously there aren't any staff members in the building, and the rules don't say anything about staff areas being off limit to elves, so I wonder where Prim will go next...

Take Your Elf to Work Day, Part 1

Did you know that Wednesday, May 2 was national Take Your Elf to Work day? 

You might want to get yourself an elf so that you can participate in such holidays.


While I was busy working, here's what happened when Prim visited the Carlsbad City Library Learning Center Literacy Services (or CCLLCLS for short, or not so short).

She browsed the books in our collection,

hung out in the computer lab,

rearranged some file cabinets,

learned about her homeland, the North Pole,

and helped herself to some coffee (thank goodness it was decaf!).

Next stop (assuming that the elevator doesn't get stuck), Bilingual Services and the staff offices...

At the movie house

Prim and I once again met up with our friends, Hilary and Kendra, but instead of a leisurely stroll around Orange County, we headed to the movies.  And what did we see?, you ask.  The Hunger Games.

Sidenote:  Prim the Elf is not named after Prim, Katniss' sister in The Hunger Games.  When Prim the Elf came in to our family and I chose her name, it was way back before I had read the book or seen a movie trailer, back when I thought that The Hunger Games had something to do with food.     

Hilary, Kendra, Prim, and I had the movie theatre entirely to ourselves.  


And when I say entirely to ourselves, I mean it was really, really empty.

Can you even see Prim in this sea of seats?    

I have no idea who Prim is watching on the big screen here.  It certainly isn't anyone from District 12.

The Hunger Games might not have anything to do with food (or does it....?), but even elves like to enjoy a snack at the movies.    

Even if the snack is twice the size of the elf. 

High Tea

Last weekend, I threw a bridal shower for my soon to be sister-in-law.  It was one big girly tea party. 

Even Prim had her own elf-sized tea cup.   

Proper ladies drink their tea with their pinky finger up, Prim. 

Oh wait.  You don't have fingers. 

And proper ladies don't steal the bride's tiara, Prim. 

She's obviously not ready to have high tea with the Queen.

Cadbury Bunny Auditions

On Easter Sunday, everyone in Prim's immediate and extended family once again gathered at my parent's house for an egg hunt and family feast. The dogs were there, of course, dressed for the occassion.  You see, Prim and the three dogs were trying their best to be the next Cadbury Bunny.  Remember that commercial with the pig and the lion and the cat wearing bunny ears and auditioning to be the next Cadbury bunny?  I think it has aired every year since 1993.  This year's contestants are, in no particular order:

Chubby Cheeks Sammy:

Eagle, the biggest wuss with the most ferocious teeth:

And Suki Sue, who was at first reluctant to wear bunny ears until Prim convinced her that it was all the rage these days: 

And of course, Prim:

Since there can be only one Cadbury bunny, and it certainly isn't any of the creatures featured above, Prim would like to wish you a happy Easter, anyway.     

P.S. Sam is a licensed and official Easter Basket Inspector.  Keep him in mind next year if you need to make sure that your baskets are up to code.  

Vitamin D

Santa's elves don't exactly have the reputation of being tan.  In fact, they often boast skin as pale as the snow in the North Pole. 

Prim, now a California resident, decided that she'd better get her tan on before summer.  This would ensure a few things.  1) Prim would have that nice, sun kissed glow come bathing suit season, 2) she would get a good dose of vitamin D, which she is in dire need of because, you might have noticed lately, she hasn't been getting out much, and 3) she'd be better prepared for her upcoming audition to join the cast of Jersey Shore.

So, off to the tanning salon we went.  Prim put on her protective eyewear,

got nice and comfortable,

and soaked up a good six minutes worth of sun.

By leaving on her leggings, skirt, and sweater, though, Prim's guaranteed herself some wicked tan lines.