Cart full of Clearance

I don’t know when my addiction to clearance started; I just know that my addiction got out of control last weekend. I had a coupon for some cleaning products that I love and decided to run to target on my lunch. I walked out of target with a cart full of clearance and a receipt for 100 dollars! My biggest mistake was stopping at two targets on the way home from work. The next day I remembered that Goodwill was having a 50 percent off sale. So clearly I had to scope out the store, to see if there was anything I really wanted, and would know exactly where to go. I didn’t find anything too amazing that night except sandpaper, that I just felt like I really really needed. But sure enough the next day, I walked out with a 40 dollar receipt.

I didn’t need either one of these, but I just loved the canvas color-and the vase is different, which I like

Ok, so I might have gone a little out of control-I bought 4 shower curtains in one day…but have already taken one back and am possibly taking the striped one back too.

2 pillows @ target for 6 dollars each

Laptop lap desk I’ve been looking for for a long time! and rotary tool from harbor freight

Nails/washer and some sand paper (sandpaper not pictured-but it was a huge thing of it, and with all the sanding Im going to have to do with my entertainment center-I'll need it)

Heater that oscillates and some kind of power tool that I wanted

DVD Player 3 dollars, VHS player 1.50 and movies for 50 cents. Urban cowboy-never seen, October sky-I know it’s a good movie, but its been forever since I’ve seen it. A League of their Own. Drop Dead Fred, a favorite from my childhood. Baby Einstein Bach-no scratches on dvd

Boys Sunday shirt and shoes, catcher’s mitt, a pair of swim trunks s and some kind of cool wrap. .

 I don’t really need a crock pot, but I had a 7qt and decided to get this one which is only about 4qt, maybe smaller will be better, plus I liked it. And how can you pass up an ice cream maker in a bowl?

Lamps are expensive so when these 54 dollar lamps were only 16 dollars each, I had to get them

Toothbrush holder that I’ve been trying to find, select bulk food from Winco, double binding from Joanne’s, new toothpaste and gum with xylitol from sprouts and cleaning supplies

Conference Expo Weekend

Conference weekend went by way too fast, it’s like the one weekend that is semi relaxing. Saturday we met at Brandon's house for crepes, but I don’t really like crepes so I just ate cookies instead. After the morning session a few of us went to the AZ Outdoor Expo at Ben Avery. I have been wanting custom ear plugs since I saw them there 3 years ago. The first year I thought they were way too expensive and was sure I could find them online or a coupon or something-but they were like 100 bucks. The second year they had gone down in price, but I didn’t have a job and so I knew I shouldn’t spend money I didn’t have. And then this year, they weren’t in their normal booth and I freaked out. I did find them and they were only 55 dollars! We watched a little of the mounted shooting, which was cool since this year they had these machines that automatically blew the balloons up. I kind of wanted to go shoot a Baretta shotgun and it was only suppose to be like 3 bucks to try them out. Well we walk over and underneath the Remington sign it said Free shooting. Needless to say we went over to Remington and had a ‘blast’!

Oppression-Revolution!

Just incase you havent gotten this message from me on facebook.....

I have a friend (Shelly Rowlan-you may know her-she is basically famous) who is working on a project about abortion and we are starting a grassroots campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade. She just launched a website that not only is informative , but allows everyone to track the spread of this movement to end abortion. Please help out by following these steps:

1. Go to the website http://oppression-revolution.com/ and watch the videos (they are awesome and let you know more about how this effort is so different and unique)

2. Go to the "Join the Revolution" section on the website and register- you will need my tag id (it only takes seconds)
Bree Overfield BO853248

3-Spread the message through email or facebook to at least 100 of your friends or family. Be sure to put YOUR TagID so they register under YOUR name.

The most important step is the last one--We have to spread the message, because I know if we can, we really can change the world!!!
Thanks so much for your support!!!
If you have any questions, please let me know
Bree

ps-You can track the progress of the campaign under "Tracking Data". (These are kind of cool so check them out on the website).
Track the Spread -shows the number of people from each state who have heard the message and joined the revolution.
Lineage of Influence will give YOU the people who have joined because of your influence. You can see the impact you are having on the cause every day. Try to get as many as possible in your Lineage.

Meet my newest Godbrother

My Godbrothers all seem to be born about the same time Wicked is in town. When Carter was born I was coming back from the temple on a Saturday night after having lost the Wicked lottery 2 years ago. I would say Hudson made me lucky cause I won tickets, but technically I didn’t really win the tickets, but he is def more of a lucky charm…its probably his red hair that makes him a leprechaun and more lucky. I wanted Julia to have a dark baby, but if red hair means Wicked tickets then I guess I am ok with that. I def think he looks more like a Houston but hopefully one day I’ll be able to call him Hudson, but I’m just not feeling it yet.

Wells Fargo

As of Feb 20th I officially became an employee of Wells Fargo. I was hired as a temp in July and thought it was the easiest job I have ever had. Granted it does require an hour long commute one way of 40 miles. That’s 10 hours of my life and 400 miles a week-good thing I have a corolla! With this job comes a few firsts-PTO (I’ve never gotten paid to not work) and Insurance (Hopefully won’t be dropping 3Gs at the dentist this year!). I never thought that I would be in the banking industry nor do I think I will stay in it. I do know that I typically hate Wells Fargo, but right now Wells Fargo is paying the bills and so I love them.

The date that ended with one head light

Dating stories never really get old. And since I’ve been on so many, I’ve got a good storehouse of them. This one has got to be top 5 for sure. I haven’t really been in a lot of car accidents in my life and I’ve never been in one while I was on a date. We went to dinner at Pei Wei and then headed over to see Annie at Mountain Ridge High School. Everything seemed to be going well, I was getting really tired, so he was driving me home. We were headed west on deer valley just about to cross 75th avenue when a car in the opposite direction decided to turn left right in front of us. I couldn’t exactly remember the light being green for us, but I know it wasn’t red and even the witnesses said it was green. We didn’t hit dead on, because he was turning and Clint tried to swerve but it was pretty near a head on collision. All I remember is trying to block the airbags with my hands (just like on blindside). I had never been in a car accident where airbags went off and was amazed at how much smoke/gas they produce. I opened my eyes and felt like I couldn’t breathe-clean air…so I started to try and open the door. Clint asked if I was ok, and surprisingly I was, I could feel my neck and back hurt, and my leg from hitting the dashboard. I walked over to the QT and when I came back the cops had arrived. The officer asked for my ID and then said, so are you guys husband and wife?…us-nope…officer- boyfriend and girlfriend? …no, this is our first date. Then she asked if we wanted to take a picture. We were both too freaked out to think it was that funny. The officer asked my opinion as to if the guy just made the turn or if he paused and then made the turn for which I responded, honestly I have no clue, all I was thinking was, why is this guy turning in front of us because it made no sense. Clint’s dad made it to the accident and offered to take me home. I could have stayed but I was pretty cold so he dropped me off since Clint couldn’t leave yet. It def was a date to remember, an accident-having my date’s dad take me home…those things don’t happen every day.
Clint kept asking me if I was ok, and I would respond yeah, I’m doing great actually…if only he knew how I get panic attacks and hyperventilate over nothing or pass out for no reason at all. Considering that I usually get sick to my stomach just driving by accidents like I was in, I was doing freakin awesome!
The next day I discovered all the bruises on my body from the seatbelt and hitting the different parts of the car inside. My neck and back hurt for a few days and I couldn’t move really, but all of a sudden on the third day I could move-and dance in the car again, I even mowed my lawn.

Wicked Night

For 3 years now I’ve been trying to win tickets to Wicked with Katie. 2 hours before the show they do a lottery for tickets. They are amazing seats and only cost 25 dollars. We went about 4 times the first year and didn’t win. This year I thought for sure we would win. I work 10 minutes away from ASU, so I planned on going almost every day after work. The first week there were hardly anyone there compared to the hundreds that came when we went. Instead there were maybe 50 people there. So of course I was sure I was going to win. But didn’t over and over again! The last week of Wicked, the crowds really started coming out. I heard someone say that there were over 180 people there just for the lottery. Even with all those people, somehow I still thought I would win, but I would go home disappointed each time.
Katie bought tickets to the last show on Friday. Her, Owen and Taryn were suppose to go, but Owen was at work in Tucson and couldn’t come. I had always thought Katie and I would see the show together. We planned on going to Oreganos before the show since it was a place we went together 3 years ago after we lost yet another lottery. Katie wasn’t going to be able to be down to ASU until 6, so just for fun I decided to go to one last lottery drawing and guess what happened?!?!?! No I didn’t win. They were calling names and you can tell when people come in groups to win. Like you’ll see these families with a bunch of kids who are just there for a ticket to go into the hat. Well, one little girl in the group wins and you see two teenage girls just scream in excitement. They were so happy and even before they got the tickets their mom was taking pictures of them etc. You could tell that they were so excited to go and couldn’t believe they won. Well it gets to the last pair of tickets that they would be giving away and what name gets called, one of those girls that already won. I was standing right behind them and could see them ask if anyone in there group wanted to go, but I guess everyone had already seen it. So I walked over to the dad and said, I’ll take the tickets…they still were standing there, and I pushed one of the girls to go get the tickets. As they are walking up I tell the dad, I will pay more than what they cost and he said, oh no no. So the girls get up there, I give them the money and they give me the tickets. I can hear other people asking to the buy the tickets from the family, so my thought was, get out of there as fast as I can before they change their mind. I went over to the dad and shook his hand and said thanks so much and he responded oh yeah have fun at the concert! And then I booked it! I checked out the seats and they were front row. I called some friends up to take the tickets and then met Katie to go to Oreganos. It was kind of whirl wind, and I mean technically I didn’t win tickets, but it felt like I did and reassured myself that “luck” sucks and I have no control over that…but I do know how to talk people into things, and it worked like a charm.
The show Wicked totally lived up to every expectation I had and actually went beyond what I thought was possible. I thought it was just going to be a play and that people loved the songs, but the songs were the last thing on my list of likes. I was far more impressed with how funny the show was. Glenda was hilarious and there were several times where Katie and I would look at each other and just be cracking up. I also was super impressed with how they integrated the wizard of oz characters into the show. It was a really cool concept and at least made me think, yeah you really can’t judge someone because you don’t know their background. I honestly thought the show was really awesome. Granted the next day I went to a high school play and thought, Wicked was nothing more than people on a stage and really couldn’t believe that people would pay hundreds of dollars to see a 2 hour show (what we paid for 2 days in Disneyland) Some seats were over 200 dollars, that was for only 1 ticket! Sometimes you have to wait years to get what you want, this was a long wait, but it made it that much more awesome! Ps- One time I was even reading my scriptures and the word Wicked was capitalized and I took a picture and sent it to Katie saying something about how we really need to see the show because I can’t read the word wicked without thinking about the show Wicked! I guess now I get to see the word and think about what a fun night we had!