kolic

Alright...I need input.
I'm left with a couple of questions that need answers and decisions that need to be made.
1) I've discovered that alcohol does work as a social lubricant for me. However, I have an addictive personality and have avoided drinking alcohol regularly to avoid that risk. So should I drink more often to help me get used to social situations and trust my willpower to keep me from drinking too much or keep trying to deal with my social problems?
2) I now have the money to help me out quite a bit. There's two main ways I could go with it. I can either get an apartment and finally get out of my parents house and have a place of my own. Or I can fix the one thing I'm obsessively self conscious about and make a down payment on braces and/or teeth whitening. You can't really tell in my pics but I have some crooked teeth and they have stains, but I think that my mind makes it worse than it really is.

I'm lookin' for input here, so say what you honestly think.