There's no reason to be embarrassed and you are the last one who should. You learned a lot last year and so did I and to be fair most of what I know I discovered coincidentally and it made me wonder and decide to do it differently.

If I started an account today I would most likely only resteem my own posts and divide them over more accounts because I find it very hard to find back my tales, and stories and some posts simply do not fit into my account.
Lately, I think a lot about starting over again and letting the present accounts for what they are (I can resteem what I find that fits into that account same for transferring SP, it will be a hell of a job and most likely not everything can be resteemed but somehow how it looks now bothers me and this for longer. I wish it was possible to get rid of certain resteems or mute them.