Bowling, swimming, drinking... ahhhh

[lumy12]

Despite not having bowled in this millennium, I didn't do THAT bad yesterday! Some gutter balls, but I also got a few spares and 2 strikes! We didn't get to finish our second game because the event ended at 2:00 and my slow-ass team wasn't done yet :( Boooo. Seemed like there were enough open lanes that they could have let us play it out, but maybe they had REAL leagues coming in.

My score in the first game was 74, third highest on my team of six. And in the second game I had 69 through 7 frames, so surely I would have finished higher there. I know it doesn't matter at all but I really didn't want to be the worst one! The other team from our company totally kicked our asses, though. They had some actual bowlers. ...now I kinda want to go bowling some more to get better. (why?? who cares??? lol) I found myself wishing my brother was there, because he's so analytical no matter what the sport that he could figure out what I was doing wrong better than I could (why was I even thinking about my form when nearly everyone else's was horrible? I couldn't help it! Stupid inner competitiveness!)

Our team won the "most spirit" award! Translation: most loud & obnoxious. LOL. Someone from 10 lanes down came over and laughingly said we needed to cheer louder because they could barely hear us down there. Heeee. My boss was the loudest one! Even gutter balls were awarded loud "WOOHOO!"s. The guys next to us were so quiet, they HAD to have been annoyed. And my ears were definitely ringing when I left there!

One of the gals had a pool party afterward, in which I was NOT the one making a drunken idiot of myself :D I had a lot of fun frolicking in the pool, and I'm not really a "pool person." I frolicked so much that I'm sore today! Pretty sure it was the jumping around in the pool for hours and not the bowling that did me in. Almost puked a couple times (THAT woulda been embarrassing!) but I managed to choke it back... ewwwwww. I was only drinking BEER, for chrissakes...no reason to puke! But beer + sun + pool + lots of moving around = probably not the best thing for my poor little bod. Did a little night pool volleyball too but I didn't last long there -- my stomach was screaming NOOOOOOOO so I bailed.

I think I've earned my lazy day today :D

Comments

[caffeinatedkate.livejournal.com]

I used to go bowling years ago, I always had sore arms the next day. Can't say I've ever had a pool party though (probably because I've never known anyone who has a pool).

But beer + sun + pool + lots of moving around = probably not the best thing for my poor little bod.

No, probably not. Hope you're feeling better today. :)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

My legs are what's sore! And my butt!

I had my usual quasi-hangover when I woke up but I can instantly cure that with coffee :) so yes, I feel fine!

In Arizona (er, Tatooine) zillions of people have pools. You can swim pretty much year-round, although it IS kinda cold in the winter and people don't tend to host pool parties then. The water yesterday was 80 degrees F... let's see, that's 26.67 degrees C according to the converter thingie. Very pleasant!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Cold in the winter? What, the water temp gets down to your idea of a "polar bear swim" of about 50 degrees?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm not sure how cold it gets... Cat would know... Cat? But that is indeed TOO FUCKING FREEZING to be swimming in, at least for very long!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

You couldn't have taken one for the team and thrown up? It would have been a much more amusing story if you did.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

That would have been SO uncool! The worst I did was throw the ball on the roof. THROW, not even hit. Whoops. Lucky for us there were a few guys there who don't mind ladders!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

When did you start caring about looking cool?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It's not the 'looking cool' I meant, it's the pooltime-is-over-unless-you-like-puke-water aspect of it!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Think of the story everyone else would have to tell on Monday morning though!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm content to let the drunk girl be the center of those!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Which wouldn't be you, I take it.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Oh no, there was someone there far more drunk and amusing than me!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

What would your inner Palps say about that?!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

He'd think I should stay home and RP more so he gets more action? LOL

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

More Arachne/Bobby action maybe XD

[sakura-ame.livejournal.com]

LOL sounds awesome! :P

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It was a lot more fun than I expected :D

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Weee bowling! I think you should do it more, its fun :)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can drag my brother out sometime. He has a bag'n'shoes'n'ball that he never uses anymore!

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Do it, do eeeeeeeeeeeet! :P

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks. It's from Being Human - a Brit show i highly recommend!

Plus y'know tree dancing and the 80s, how can you go wrong!?

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

I pretty much only watch online/via my DVD player :).

Haha good, wouldn't have wanted you to miss out on that shirtless Hugh Jackman action XD.

And now its my turn to love your icon :D.

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

Haha! That sounds like a great time and I'm more than a little envious! I laughed out loud for real reading about your inner competitiveness and how you KNOW you shouldn't care about your form and how well you did, but couldn't help it nonetheless. I actually relate to that a lot.

Night pool volleyball! I seriously haven't done that since I was a little kid. Like middle school age at most. Maan, that sounds so fun. now. Again, very envious.

Eeeew, I'm glad for everyone's sake that you were able to choke back the puke. That would have put a damper on the festivities (literally! HA!).

OK, enough. It's great to hear from you and you really gotta post more often. Please? And yeah, I'd say you earned your day of relaxation. Hope it was a good one!

and I'm still sore!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Oh good, so I'm not the only freakazoid who thinks that way, ha! I made a couple remarks and people were like "Oh who cares??" so I shut up :) I did explain the scoring to one clueless person who claims she used to bowl a lot (I guess she could have just forgotten? She must have also forgotten that you don't take 15 steps either) and chatted a little with the only "real" bowler on our team, who was having a hard time with the lane...she could tell the difference between that one and the one she bowls on. She noticed I purposely start out way to the left because of how my ball curves. I would have talked to her more but she kept going off to the other team where her girlfriend (the best bowler of both teams) was!

She was also the best one at volleyball, actually. I couldn't get overly competitive there because there was no way to keep score and we almost never had equal players on both sides anyway :)

I'm glad you enjoy my ramblings! I'm just usually not doing anything interesting enough to mention <3

Re: and I'm still sore!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yeah, the most athletic one was usually either holding a cigarette or a drink, and she still held her own quite well!

[azur-dreams.livejournal.com]

lol u are andrew WK all of a sudden! party hsrd. also, joaquin was at work last night.. he's hawt.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

WK?

Joaquin IS hot! Did you talk to him? Oh by the way I got to say to someone on the Sims community that I knew someone who DID find hats to be a turn on ;) Some Sims like hats and the girl thought that seemed unrealistic. No one likes men chopping wood barechested though, haha

[azur-dreams.livejournal.com]

no i stayed out of Joaquin's vision cuz i looked like crap. lol somebody must find hats to be a turn on or they wouldn't sell them. no guy in Hwood will ever be without those fedoras they wear at night. and hey if edward cullen & jacob decide to suddenly win Bella's love with a bare chested wood chop-out i would have it in slow mo.

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Australia? Based upon your comments you should ;)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

LOL, Hugh Jackman could just stand around shirtless and I'd need some "time"!!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yup, now back to Wendy's regularly scheduled comfortable routine :)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a good time. I haven't been bowling in ages. I was in a league a bazillion years ago, I think it was middle school!!! I always enjoyed it. I would have been feeling competitive about it too!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Crap, I don't have my "sexyback" icon for Palpatine on this account, we could be twinsies. LOL waiting for the NOT!!!!

A middle school bowling league? How quaint! I was never on a league but my parents were both bowling zealots back in the day, and I had some friends who enjoyed it. Do kids even like to go bowling these days? They probably just do it on the Wii!

[nelliedrum.livejournal.com]

lol. You are such a nerd. I miss you! I don't go on LJ that much and neither does anyone else....
But yeah, I like bowling! I barely ever do it though, maybe once a year. (not sure how well I'd do now pregnant lol) I was on a bowling team when I was like 12 years old, but we totally sucked. The force just really has to be with your ball..

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Hey now, *I* am on LJ a lot! I'm an LJ nerd!! It's FB I ignore for weeks! ('til someone links me to something they want me to see!)

I saw the end of Fanboys the other day. You saw that, right? Woulda been better if I had known it was set in 1998, lol