2025 Holiday Party Season 🥂
Date: Saturday 12/06/2025
Event: Company Holiday Party
My prep for the night started maybe around 1PM with an everything shower and I basically took it slowly to get ready. It was my official picture debut of my newly dyed choco brown hair so I had to look good, duh. My dress was thrifted for $13 (originally it sold for $280 so a complete steal), red french tip nails, hair curled, and makeup was on by 7PM. By 730PM I was at Drea's to Uber to the party and I gave her some of the background on who was part of my work life and what to expect from this event.
We arrive like 815PMish and get the cute arrival drink but tell me why the first thing we see when we walk in was a tiger. Like a full on live tiger in a cage at this party. Absolutely insane and unexpected, but super cool (kind of unethical though oops).
Ater we walked in, we got our first drink at the bar and everything felt like a whirlwind. I was introducing Andrea to all my coworkers and random employees we would see left and right. It felt like I spent my whole evening yapping away and the whole time there was a drink in my hand (there were like 3 to 4 open bars and I am one to take advantage of free alcohol). It is truly so hard to recap the night because of everybody we saw and everything we did and the eventual blackout so I am going to recap in no specific order.
Clearly we saw and met a lot of people. The two people I remember the most are Kayla and Trevor. Terri (Kayla's 2nd identity) was definitely out and it was fun seeing Kayla drunk, Drea even had a friend crush on her (which I get because I adore Kayla). Trevor is a solid character of my work life that I am glad Drea got to meet plus Sam was fun to talk to considering I see her once a year at this event. We didn't see much of Lizzy (and Tyler, her purse) but she was memorable whenever she did pop up and she locked in to ensure we did our tradition of a family photo with Kevin!
Eventually we made our way to the dance floor which I do not remember (like at all). According to Greg, I was on the dance floor grinding on somebody...absolutely mortifying to think I was doing that in front of fellow coworkers. The good thing is that I was grinding on one of the workers at the event and not a fellow employee. While dancing with said worker and Drea, I ate shit and fell down. Greg said he waited to talk to us but Andrea and I were in our own little bubble laughing our asses off once I fell so he bailed.
The second thing that happened on the dance floor involves Gutz... like who let me be on the dance floor for this long? I am not sure but while on the dance floor I ended up falling again. This time I fell backwards into Gutz and almost took out his ACL. He said he helped me up and that my standing was like that of a baby giraffe. Once again, embarrassing but we are not done with our night.
Shortly after taking a group picture in the ball pit with Trevor and Kayla is when everything went downhill. I had to be escorted to the bathroom by Spencer (pretty well respected man at work) and Beth (my boss AKA the HR Director). Spencer was allegedly walking me to the bathroom with his hands on my shoulder and Beth running behind him. What happened in the bathroom? No idea and I am not sure if I will ever know but when Beth came back and found me I was in a strangers lap and Drea was sitting next to us for moral support.
Beth had to call in reinforcements to help me out... and of course it had to be a GM. Any ounce of reputation I had in Richie's eyes is gone. He helped carry me out of the bathroom and today he told me I was basically limp in his arms. Oh and Kevin was there too. It didn't sound like he helped much though so he's rather irrelevant but it was humbling that he witnessed that. Either way Richie helped carry me out and while we waited he helped hold me up. It sounded like it was like a slow dance position with my arms around the neck. He then put me in the Uber and told the driver that I was now his problem LOL.
The Uber takes us to Drea's place and she had to let this random man into her home in order to get me inside (looking back bad decision but we're alive so it's ok). I am wasted on Drea's floor while she FaceTime's our good friends Cole, Nicole, and Chelsea. Chelsea and Cole come over to help out because Andrea was also pretty drunk. I do not recall this at all either but apparently I vomited over Drea's floor. Anyways I wake up feeling pretty great and not too much remembered but there was a box of McNuggets next to my head that I started eating for breakfast. Andrea and I did a debrief session and then I headed home knowing the Monday after the holiday party I was going to get shit from other employees (which I did).
For some people this would be a wake up call but I am only 23 years old so I am going to keep living my life with minimal regrets. Can't wait till next year's company holiday party!
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