Sam's Club

We went to Sam's today.  Blah. I was not too happy about it, but I knew that since  our whole family is all Atkinized now that we'd need more low-carb stuff soon.  So, I didn't put up a fight.  Of course, I would never do that.  I'm the perfect angel, remember?  Note the extreme sarcasm.

We went with Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw.  I'll refer each of them with the corresponding acronyms.  That was a mouthful. 

Bringing MM can get on my nerves sometimes.  Don't get me wrong, I love her to death, really, I do, but two things drive me crazy!  She is so unaware of her surroundings.  She doesn't pay attention and she gets kind of irritable when she doesn't understand something.  But my biggest thing is this:  She has little to no grasp on nutrition.  At all.  

Marketers of junk food target this kind of ignorance.  Example:  She thinks that anything with the word "fruit" in it is automatically good.  This brings the inevitable storm of questions of whether she can get fruit snacks, fruit rolls, fruit juice, etc.  Another example:  Anything low-anything, whether it be low-fat or low-cal or low-carb, is good to her.  She doesn't understand that something that is low-fat is usually that way because they added sugar to it, and that low-cal does not equal good-for-you.  And many "low-carb" products aren't really low-carb, or taste like cardboard.  So there you go.

Let me say this again.  I love my Maw-Maw.  It's just these two things that get on my nerves.  I am not embarrassed by her in the least, I just wish I could make her understand these things.

Aside from the usual aboveness, it was a good trip.  We loaded up on the beef jerky and Atkins bars.  Afterwards, Mom and my sister(I have got to find a blog name for her) got hot dogs and didn't eat the bread.  I resisted pizza.  Yep.  Congratulate me. 

This trip made me very thankful.  Thankful for the fact that I don't have a major bodily deformity/weirdness.  I saw a woman with legs so spindly that you'd think she'd weigh maybe 90 pounds, but her upper body was probably 200 pounds of fat.  It was weird.  God bless these people.  Surely there is something wrong with them.

I also saw just extremely fat people.  Kind of made me thankful for the Atkins bars in the cart.

Overall, it was a pretty good trip.  We probably gave Atkins enough money to build another factory.