No Rest for the Weary

I am a sleepy girl. No surprise there. I'm pretty sure anyone who knows me could recount at least one occasion where I have fallen asleep at an inopportune time and/or place because, let's face it, I like to sleep. However, I also like to do fun things and so, for the past two weeks, I've been neglecting sleep in order to be a social butterfly.

Saturday before last, I went to the live taping of College Game Day at the Air Force Academy. I'm not even going to tell you what time I woke up because even now, it's nausea-inducing.

But it was totally worth it for this "MONEY SHOT" of Kirkers. I've harbored a slight crush on Kirk Herbstreit since approximately my sophomore year of college. Doesn't it kind of look like Kirkers is taking an obvious stand against the Texas Longhorns in this picture? I'd like to think so.

Then, of course, there was Lee "not so fast my friend" Corso.

And Chris Fowler, who graduated from high school right here in Colorado Springs.

And finally, Desmond Howard.

Monday night I lucked out and got last minute tickets to Monday Night Football: Broncos vs. Steelers (thanks, Maria!). Too bad it took us upwards of three hours to get from the Springs to Mile High, which caused us to miss the first quarter and resulted in a Series of Unfortunate Events. Nevertheless, the last three quarters were lots of fun and totally worth it. Here's Benny-boo-boo-boo (Ben Roethlisberger) planning his assault:

Then came Veteran's Day, which was a holiday for me because of my high-paying government job contract. Sarcasm. Anyway, a new Chick-fil-A opened on Nov. 12 in town and because they give a year of free meals to the first 100 customers at the Grand Opening, I decided to forgo sleep yet again to camp out for 24 hours in the parking lot to ensure that I would get more free chicken than can possibly be healthy.

After a frantic phone call from my good friend Phil at dark-thirty, I hastily threw 8 pairs of socks in a bag and flew out the door. I was number 98! It was so much fun because we probably knew 60 of the campers.

First we waited in line...Then we set up camp...

Then we played some games...
Then we nearly froze to death...

Then we got our chicken, complete with free t-shirt. But he wore these pants by choice...

Those are a few of the happenings recently. I will also be sleepless for the next 3-4 nights because of more ridiculous activities, but I will update you on those after they've happened and when I have a little less shame about what I'm doing with my life.

*All photos courtesy of Alecia DeLorme