I went out bowling with Kevin this evening from 6:30 to 9:30. It was the handicap-determining round for the various AOL bowling teams. I was subbing for someone on “The Misfits”, named because we were the haphazardly-thrown-together team. 🙂 I only agree to do it as long as everyone knew I hadn’t bowled in about four years, so therefore I know I’m a pretty crappy bowler. We played three games, and my scores were pretty terrible. 28 the first game, 46 the next, and 54 the last. Not too bad overall, considering it from the standpoint of at least I got better, hehe. But, I quickly realized I have a major handicap when bowling (I mean a real one, not that I have a horribly pitiful number of points that have to be added to my score to make up for my playing so badly.) I’m a right-handed bowler, so therefore my left foot is supposed to be the one that stops me when I approach the lane to fling the ball. Not having a left toe, I kept slipping and then I would jerk the ball and zoooom, straight into the gutter. 🙂 I had to develop an entire new style for bowling, which I must say took a long time to get used to, and I’m still not that comfortable with it. I have to mentally glue my left foot to the floor then lunge forward with my right foot, all the time trying to remember to keep my thumb straight so I won’t send the ball straight into the gutter. After all that, I actually knocked all the pins down once… after several frames of nothing. 🙂 But, I’m quite happy with my progression. I met my goal of breaking 50, so I feel better. And, everyone was certainly very nice about it, as far as I know. My team and the team we were up against cheered when I knocked down more than two pins at a time, which was pretty funny when most of the other bowlers were disappointed when they left only two standing up. Hehe. There was one guy on the other team who was able to send the ball spinning so it would curve around the lane and, more often then not, result in a strike. I can’t even imagine how one would set about trying to learn how to do such a thing. Craziness.
Now my right thigh and my right upperarm are as stiff as boards. Not the joints, the muscles. Surprisingly, they aren’t too sore, though. It’s just my thumb that hurts. I can’t ever find a bowling ball that’s the right weight and at the same time big enough for my thumb knuckle. Strange because my thumbs really aren’t that big. You’d have to have toothpicks for fingers to fit into an 8 pound ball at my age, hehe. 🙂
I think I’m going to have to quit listening to Fat Boy Slim and Massive Attack and get to bed. I don’t want to stay up as late as I did last night because I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep in tomorrow like I did this morning. Ah, that felt nice, though. 🙂 I’m certainly not a morning person. Once I’m up, I’m up, but goodness, I don’t like it.