Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. I am an avid fan of the The Walking Dead, SciFi and anything scary. Nothing takes me out of my daily routine, out of the million thoughts in my brain, like zombies, aliens, werewolves & vampires! I love the escape.
I plan my costume weeks, months, sometimes a year(!), in advance. However. That does not mean I always get it right. Oh, I think I looked pretty good, maybe even scary, this I planned right. What I planned wrong was the how-things-work to make me look like a vampire.
See, we live in Germany (in case you are new to my babbling). So I bought my contacts & fangs from the German Amazon. The contacts weren’t an issue, I wear contacts every day. The fangs though, they were an issue. The directions were in German, and in tiny German to boot. Add in that we were running late, here’s were the not planning properly came to fruition, and Tess read the directions to me. Little did I know that she skipped over a very important, small, detail, so she could get to her friends faster. Kids.
To attach the fangs I had to melt little glue balls, squish into the fangs & then squish onto the teeth. THEN you are supposed to take off the fangs, let the glue cool, then return to your teeth. Since Tess skipped the cooling down part of the instructions, I left on the fangs, thrilled with the incredible adhesion, and we went on our merry Trick-or-Treating way.
Fairly early on I realized I could not eat with Fangs. No candy for me. I was okay with that, I don’t really have a sweet tooth, but after T-or-T, at our friends party, I still couldn’t eat. No meatballs, no guacamole, no nothing! It was then Tess reappeared, right as I was lamenting my no-guacamole fate, and said “oh.”
Oh?
“Oh yeah, I forgot, you were supposed to abkühl the fangs and then put them back.” abkühl = cool off. Great. Thanks Tess.
Luckily Soren’s friends mom is a dental hygienist and via-via I got tips, tricks & I finally got the fangs off at zero dark thirty. Of course, by then all the chocolate was gone and I was left with Thursday night leftovers. Poor me.
Ha! turns out I’m not the only vampire lover in the family… check out Tess & Dane circa Halloween 2010:
Boy, this just made my day!!! Toiny, you vampire goddess! xoxo
Hysterical! And ultra frustrating, the whole not able to eat at the party thing!! What’s up with that! Glad you finally got them off, but they did look pretty dang awesome!!