Thursday, October 24, 2013

Embarrassing Moments

FINISH THE SENTENCE FRIDAY BLOG HOP: One Halloween, I...


Those of you who’ve been following me for a while may feel like I’ve fallen off the blogging wagon.  Unfortunately, my carpal tunnel is still giving me a decent amount of trouble.  I wish I could say that these weeks off typing have made a huge difference, but it looks like I may just need to wait a little bit longer before I can get back into the full swing of things.
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In the meantime, I’ve been working on The Beloved Daughter audiobook launch party.  Most of you probably know about my novel, The Beloved Daughter, the story of a young girl sent to a North Korean prison camp for her father's faith.  Well, in preparation for the release of The Beloved Daughter audiobook, I planned a huge blog tour with over 40 stops, weakly prizes and giveaways, and a month-long Facebook party.  Pretty impressive, right?

The humbling news is that when the audiobook was released, I found out almost right away from a listener that the chapters were entirely out of order.  I am now two weeks into the blog tour, and as far as I know, Audible has not yet been able to correct the problem.  Talk about embarrassing!

This isn’t the first time I’ve been embarrassed, and I’m sure it won’t be my last.  With Halloween just a few days away (and with a fun finish the sentence Friday writing prompt), I’m reminded of another embarrassing story that happened to me about 15 years ago.

When I was in high school, my friend invited me to her birthday party, which happened to fall on Halloween night.  My dad was convinced we were in the right area the area, and as we drove around in the dark I also pretended to know exactly where we were going.  We got to the house that I thought was it, and my dad pulled into the driveway.  By this time, we were both a little overwhelmed from being stuck in the car alone together for more than 5 minutes.  When I reached to open the car door, my dad asked me if I was positive we wereat the right place.  I assured him I recognized it and headed to the porch with my birthday present in hand.

Unfortunately, when I knocked at the house, the person who answered was a complete stranger.  I could tell by the ghoulish decorations that I was at the wrong house.  That’s the kind of things that teens get embarrassed by, right? So what did I do?  I very seriously thought about saying, “Trick or treat!” but then I remembered that I was the teenage girl holding a frilly birthday present and not even wearing a costume.

That’s certainly not my most embarrassing story from high school, but it is the funniest Halloween story I can remember.  Since I don’t know when my wrists will allow me to get around to the finish the sentence Friday blog hop again, I would also like to invite you to enter my giveaway!
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Thanks to Finish the Sentence Friday Hosts: Kate of Can I Get Another Bottle of Whine…, Janine of Janine’s Confessions of a Mommyaholic, Stephanie of Mommy, for Real and Kristi of Finding Ninee.
 

14 comments:

  1. Oh right, teens are embarrassed by everything! I think it is a cute story! xoxo

    Hope your carpal tunnel will be better soon! Take care!

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  2. So what did you do? Were you able to get your dad to take you to the correct house? Was this in the day before cell phones? Yes, teenagers are embarrassed by so much!
    Congratulations again on the book tour. I hope Audible gets everything sorted out for you soon!

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    1. Yup, no cell phones. We just kept driving and eventually made it. We were in the completely wrong neighborhood the first time. (We both have awful senses of direction!)

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  3. I was so that teen that would not have been able to spend 5 minutes in the car with my dad back in the day nor would I have admitted that I was wrong. Totally brought me back to that time in my life with this one. Thanks for linking up and so sorry your carpal tunnel syndrome has been giving you such problems. Hoping you are feeling a bit better now and thank you though for linking up with us.

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    1. Haha, Janine, hope you got closer to your dad once you got older! Have a great weekend!

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  4. That is definitely a funny story! Great way to "save" yourself in that situation, even though it was completely incredible ;-)

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    1. Haha, thanks, so funny what we do to save face sometimes, isn't it?

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  5. Funny memory. Sorry about the audiobook- hopefully that gets turned around quickly as well as the carpel tunnel symptoms.

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    1. Thanks, Kenya! I hope so too. Have a great weekend!

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  6. I felt embarrassed for you! Hope you got some yummy candy!

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    1. Chocolate does make everything better, doesn't it?

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  7. Oh no, that's awful about the audiobook. I hope it gets fixed soon! I'm suffering with carpal tunnel too. I've taken to using the mouse with my left hand. That helps some. I've been forced by pain to cut back on using the computer and social media so much.

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    1. So sorry you're going through it too, Kate! That whole post was actually "written" via my computer dictation program. Took twice as long, but at least I got it out! Hope you get healed up soon!

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