I may have finally had the most earth-shattering blonde moment of my life, although some might say that since I'm no longer blonde, I'll have to look for another excuse. Anyway, I received my spiffy new USBC card in the mail last week, and in the place of average, it says N/A. But I've been reading the message boards on a variety of sites, and I'm aware of the WINLABS glitch that allowed an entire batch of "membership" cards to be shipped without averages on them. No big deal. A week passes and I receive my transfer/local BA card, and there's no average on that either.
So I go to bowl.com, use the find-a-bowler feature, and come to realize I didn't book an average last year. Durrrrrr. How can someone, bowling in her 20th season miss the obvious? The simple answer is this: My adult/junior leagues are short season leagues, running roughly from Labor Day through the December holidays, the next leagues run January through May, and the summer leagues bowl from just after Memorial Day through Labor Day. This schedule gives each league from 10-17 weeks, depending on which season. Now, split the spot since I bowl every other week, alternating with my husband. And I never bowl the first week (paperwork) and I never bowl sweeper (the last week) because there's too much to do. So I ended up with 18 games twice and a variety of leagues with fewer games than that. So for the 2004-2005 season, I don't have a book. This means I'm not going to be bowling many tournaments this year--not that I've been bowling many the last few years. But this year, I can't.
Of course, no one will see me petitioning any tournament directors for papal dispensation, either. I enjoy my every-other-week situation. I've never been happier, coordinating the kids on Saturdays (Pepsi qualifying starts next week, dontchaknow), coaching Zoe through her bumper league with her posse of preschoolers and early elementary school friends, bowling every other Sunday with my son, and dealing with sport bowlers of both youth and adult divisions with my Junior Gold program and the trios league I'm secretarying for on Monday nights.
By the time Tuesday rolls around, the last place I want to be is in another bowling center. So until Zoe is off bumpers and Mario and I have to bowl full time and fill two teams of Rodrigui in the adult/junior league, I'm officially out of tournament competition and enjoying every minute of it.
The fact that I didn't even think about it when I could have done something about it speaks volumes.
And yes, I suppose that means I'll have more time for writing. Or we can always hope. :)
Gotta split,
Diva
Posted by Angel Zobel-Rodriguez at October 28, 2005 02:12 PM