Did You Drink the Kool-Aid?

So last weekend I went to the grocery store with my mom and we ran into a girl that I grew up with. We had been friends in elementary and middle school and then grew apart about the time I joined the marching band and she joined the drill team. Does that paint a picture, or what!?

So me...I'm 5'7" and voluptuous. My hair, which is naturally blonde, is dyed red. I have two tattoos (neither of which are openly visible) and 8 piercings (left year: two in lobe, one in cartilage, one in tragus; right ear: three in the lobe; nose). I have a good work wardrobe, but dress pretty casual outside of work. I'm commonly seen in jeans and a sweater or shirt. Honestly, my dress style is probably bordering on preppy at times. I wear some jewelry: my wedding rings, a thumb ring with a Celtic-style design, various simple earrings, and an amber necklace from time to time. I wouldn't consider my style to be wildly liberal or overly conservative. I'm just me.

And her...She's 5'10" and size 6. The only visible piercings are one diamond stud in each ear. She's wearing jeans, a sweater set, high heeled boots, and a strand of pearls (what 28-year-old wears a strand of pearls!?). She is blonde, blonde, blonde, and I swear that she has had some "work" done. Her face didn't used to look like that.

Let me tell you...I have never felt quite so short and stubby in my entire life!!! I think I must have been sick the day that they passed around the Stepford Wife Kool-Aid. How about you?

Before and After Pictures of the Loveliness that is Me
(Senior in High School and Now...10 Years Later)