Cate and I went to Wal-Mart the other night with her mom and, because we were bored, we decided to document it for a blog post.

Try not to let your heart rate raise too high with excitement.

Here’s something interesting about our Old Wal-Mart (we got a new one a few years ago, so now they’re respectively known as either Old Wal-Mart or New Wal-Mart): whilst most Wal-Marts have had the common sense to stop selling live animals in their stores, ours is still kicking it old school with a row of fish tanks along the back wall of the store. We had only been in the store for a few minutes when Cate asked me if I wanted to go with her to count the dead fish floating at the top of the tanks.

I thought she was joking, but I should know better. Cate doesn’t joke around when it comes to things of an aquatic nature.

We then headed to the craft section because we like to pretend we know how to make adorable things. It was there that I discovered that THERE IS A LINE OF MARTHA STEWART PRODUCTS AT WAL-MART!!!

Now, here’s the thing: I’m not really a “Martha fan” necessarily, but I love the packaging for her products. Just love it. So, I was going on and on about the glitter while Cate completely ignored me and actually pretended like she didn’t know the fool who was gushing over THE BEAUTIFUL PACKAGING, HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEAUTIFUL PACKAGING?

And then she came over and saw the beautiful packaging of a glue stick and was hooked.

Oh, and Martha doesn’t just package glue sticks well — she also does a fantastic job on entire TUBES OF GLUE!

So, we’re looking at the beautiful packaging when Cate notices that Martha has come out with a line of crafts that include making farm animals from pom-poms. I begin making fun of it, actually saying “Who in the world would buy this?” when I look up to see that Cate has pulled one from the shelf in an apparent gesture of potential purchase.

Don’t worry; I stopped her before she made a decision she would later regret.  No one has ever made pom-pom farm animals and not felt acute embarrassment later on.  No one.

We then headed to the beauty section because I like to look at the hairspray and Cate needed some stuff of her own. Here’s what I love about Cate: she’s a grown woman, graduated from university and yet still waits until her mom isn’t looking to hide her stuff in her cart so she’ll buy her toothpaste for her.

Cate’s mom?  If you’re reading?  Just be thankful it wasn’t the pom-pom animals.