The following blog is a response to the wonderful and Darling Dick’s Recent Blog – (<-- that's a link. Click it..) It was a translation to blog of our recent convo via text about one of A&E's recent episodes of "Intervention". The decision was that this particular episode failed at depicting meth addicts as your typical unattractive pock marked mug/pre-morgue cadavers waiting for their next fix of Tina...or a toe tag. The latter usually follows the former before too long. For those of you living under a rock for the last ... forever... this is the typical "downward spiral" meth is said to induce:

Okay…okay.. So maybe this one didn’t start out a beauty pageant homecoming queen necessarily, but she was alright by average standards. And this random google image pic I found is the usual “before n’ after” pic we see for chronic meth users.

Then Erin comes along. A&E features her documentary interview on their show called “Intervention”. Her story starts the same. Meth monster. Fumbles around her house bumping into ish. Has no job. Speaks in circles lacking logic. Has a “husband” that’s really more of a sugar daddy who she uses for money and cheats on (I ended that in a prepositional phrase and I’m committing to it. Sue me)…. Anyway… It’s everything Richard re-posted in his beautifully constructed blog linked above and then again linked here.

And for those of you too lazy to check his link, I’ll recap the gist: I realized as I watched the show, the problem was…Erin was a hottie. On mute, at least. But many women are. Anyway, I digress. She was a total ten. Meth or not, she was still pretty. Maybe a tad thinner than some might like – but no chancre sores, hair looked pretty, clothes looked neat and kempt, and she maintained her Texan girl tan all the while. So the whole “caring about appearances disappears for meth users” clearly didn’t apply here either.

To exacerbate my guilt levels, after she got clean, she looked… well… not as Megan Fox-like as before. I felt awful for thinking this, so naturally I enlisted a brutally honest opinion and took a trip to RichardLand . Rich concurred, and even went so far as to draw up the blog you were supposed to have already read, comprising this before and after image of Miss Erin prior to and following treatment:

But...the plot thickens. Richard knows I always play the devil’s advocate – even with myself. By writing the type of blog he knew I would write, he also knew he could lure me into a little late night research which would lead to this blog. Damn you, Bushnell!! *shaking fist*

Before you get confused, first, let me say that obviously meth is a big no no. Don’t do it. You won’t look like Erin. Bla bla bla PSA announcement etc. Plus (and here comes the flipside of the before/after images of Erin), I couldn’t help but noticing that if you DO happen to be a hottie meth addict who still makes time to hit the tanning salon, Chi your hair, and apply MAC instead of using your face as a breeding ground for scabs… worry not of becoming the “boxier faced” chic post rehab.

While pRehab Erin may’ve looked like a blonde Meg. Fox:

Who does *post-hab* Erin kinda sorta look like?

Think about it…

That’s right!

America’s Girl Next Door~!!

So there ya go. Put THAT in your pipe and… Oooh~!!! Snap… Walked right into that one.

xoxo
<3~A