Week 7: one of your most embarrassing moments; we’ve all got one.

In continuing with this series that I started 7 weeks ago, here is one of my embarrassing moments. Surprisingly, I don't have a bunch of embarrassing moments in my life - not sure if that's because I don't do enough things to embarrass myself, or if I just don't acknowledge the embarrassment in a situation...
Anyways, so here is one of my most recent embarrassing moment.
- Early February 2016 -



I don't do well in social situations (we all know that). So, for the most part, when I am forced into one where I don't want to be, I do my best to remove my mind from the situation. This usually means alcohol.

I was attending a work dinner/formal event and was required to be quite dressed up *groan*.
Since it was an evening event, I had the whole day to prepare. I think one thing we need to keep in mind through this story is that I'm very much a light-weight when it comes to alcohol. We had lunch at a beautiful restaurant along the riverfront. Drinking at lunch was probably my first mistake - from what I can remember, about 5 glasses of wine were consumed. Luckily there was only the two of us at this restaurant, so I didn't have the chance to say anything stupid to anybody else I know. We went for a walk along the river and made it back to our hotel room. Where in the process of getting ready I was left alone with a bottle (or two) of more wine.

So far, good choices are being made. [And going through my brain at any of these times is how good of an idea it is to drink because it relaxes me and eases me in social situations - what I don't think about, is the quantity of alcohol being put in my body and what that alcohol is going to do inside of me].

Once I was dressed and sitting on the balcony, admiring the views of the city at sunset I remember being given a pep talk- "only talk to people if they ask you questions, don't do anything to attract attention, don't drink anymore and we will only stay for as long as we need, then we're coming back to the room." I listened to most of those rules. While I didn't speak to anyone around me and didn't do anything to attract attention, I did keep drinking. Here's the fun part - I had an overwhelming sense of nausea and had to head to the bathroom. Luckily nothing came up (TMI?!), and a quick look at myself in the mirror and a makeup touch-up was enough to bring me back in check. Well, until I started drinking more. Here's another thing to note about me - when it came to my ex, I was extremely flirty toward him when drunk. Sigh. So here I was at a noisy and overcrowded bar, quite intoxicated, sitting on my (now ex-)boyfriend's lap, basically attached to his face while a bunch of our co-workers were drinking and dancing around us. This happened for around 3 hours.

And while it may not seem overly embarrassing to you, it's something that I found excruciatingly embarrassing and haven't told anyone of since. I ended up being the most intoxicated *surprise, surprise* and was escorted out of the bar and back to our hotel room a long time before anyone else went home.

Safe to say, the breakfast meeting was a real joy the next morning. And definitely something people from work still bring up - thanks guys *eyeroll*.

XO