It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Change is a part of life.
If you don’t put yourself out there, you don’t know how far you can go.
Of course, if you don’t put yourself out there, there is no danger of embarrassing yourself either. Which is where my first BlogHer07 story begins.
I met Jessica from Oh, the Joys and made a complete fool of myself. I actually approached her (very out of character for me, I assure you) and she was gracious from the word go. She was excited to see me. Had been looking for me. Asked intelligent questions about how I liked the different panels presented at BlogHer.
I’ll see your intelligent conversation and fold.
Instead of answering her questions and returning them, I laughed. Then asked where to get wine. Then laughed. Then words just started tumbling out of my mouth. I don’t even know what words they were. Panic set in. The only way to stop the madness would be to turn and walk away. Which is what I did.
As I removed myself from the situation, I turned and threw a "Heh heh, gotta get some wine to take the edge off. Bye!" at her. She looked utterly bewildered. She said good-bye, but the look in her eyes was that of someone who didn’t know whether what had just happened had actually happened.
I was mortified. I kept walking. When I found Antique Mommy, the first words out of her mouth were, "Chili? Do you have a hole in your pants?"
"What?!?"
"Yeah."
"Where?" I look down. It’s my crotch. Nice.
The perfect end to the perfect cocktail party.
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I feel slightly bad about the fact that I just laughed at your misfortune and I don’t even know you
That’s the kind of thing bad dreams are made of. But it makes for bloggity goodness, don’t ya think?
Um…ouch. I hope your dignity and esteem are healing nicely.
(It does make for great bloggy goodness, however!)
hee hee…Now you know she’ll never forget meeting you!
Everyone I talked to had at least one Stupid Moment at BlogHer. It’s part of the by-laws, I think.
“I’ll see your intelligent conversation and fold.”
That’s hilarious. This just goes to show you should never leave home without the Groucho glasses.
I remain skeptical. Having met you in all your wonderful hilariousness I prefer to believe that you were actually enchanting and funny and the confused look to which you refer was brought on by the massive amounts of people rather than YOU (or maybe a blood sugar low). At any rate, you are in my top 3 favorite people that I met at BlogHer and I LOVE how you can laugh at yourself… and get everyone laughing along with you.
I’ll see your embarrassing BlogHer moment and raise you this conversation from ’06:
Me : Oh my god! Hi! I’m Chase!
Her : Oh, Chase! HI! *we hug*
Me : Ya know, I was sitting over there wondering if that was you and I kept thinking it LOOKED like you and so I came over here and it IS you! How funnnnny! I just KNEW it was you, Kristen [Motherhood Uncensored]!!
Her : Yeah, that’s great, but I’m Stefania [CityMama]. I know all us half-Asians look alike, though. And, I know I’m fat and all, but I’m NOT four months pregnant like Kristen is.
Me : *DIES A HORRIBLE DEATH RIGHT THERE*
*end scene*
And what made it worse? People, including Liz [Mom-101] coming up to me allll weekend saying “Oh my god, I heard what you said to Stefania!”
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
You’re a hoot girl! I thought the hole was just a conversation starter, you know, like – “Great earrings!” It wasn’t on purpose?
Wow. I think I’ll stay right here behind my monitor, where it’s safe!
~TaunaLen
No WAY! You did NOT! (Have a whole in your pants.)
ROFLOL! Ahem. I’m sorry. Laughing *with* you, I assure you.
Did you ever find Jessica again? After your edges were “off?”
Okay – the “see your intelligent conversation and fold” is cracking me up.
And a hole in your pants?
NIIIIIICE.
Oh, this is hilarious! And Chase’s moment is priceless! I wish we’d had more time to embarrass ourselves together!
I did have a guy in a sandwich shop ask me when the next one was due on Thursday afternoon. That SUCKED- That has never happened to me before in my whole entire life! Dang those empire waist dresses!
When I saw the title of the post, I figured it had somethign to do with those odd bathrooms at the. A shuttered window in the bathroom. Who thought that up?
Next BlogHer try some outrageous earrings or a low-cut shirt, people will never look below your waist.
We all make real good gawfaw’s at awkward times! You just did a splendid job and get an A for effort!
See…you are an achiever!
As I’m an accidental oops, foot in mouth, over achiever my self…don’t know if blog her is ever in my poor future!
Hey there.
Just back from vacation and seeing this.
I thought you were wonderful… and I WAS delighted to meet you… and I HAD been waiting to meet you… and you WEREN’T silly at all.
xo,
OTJ
oh NO! no, no, NO!