2/2 Super Bowl 2014

Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, and this is my first Jing Gal Bowls blog post for 2014, and my first blog post since October 2013.  I hope this has been a good new year so far for y'all out there.  The blog has been idle but I have been busy bowling, and you know I would rather bowl than blog!  It has been a bit of a roller coaster for me on the lanes, good days and very bad days, but as always I am ever hopeful coz I am still growing, still learning and still getting better!

I have to admit that 2013 was a good year for me.  From a May 2013 USBC league average of 137, I ended the year with a USBC average of 148.  I started seeing Donna Roberts for coaching in June, and the difference has been significant (THANK YOU!).  I ended up being the top female bowler in our Philly Pinoy Mixed Fall League (MFL), where I had an average of 156.  My GoPapa Joel and I organized and managed the MFL with ample support from the Philly Pinoy Bowling Committee, and boy, was I busy blogging (up to two times each week!) posting about the happenings within that league on my BowlStar Blog.  

This year I am continuing to play with my beloved Scatterpins team (with Sadie, Ann Marie and Ruth) in the Downingtown Womens Wednesday Night USBC sanctioned league.  I am now the lone gal playing on the formerly all-male Bowlinators team (with Romy, Blue and Paul), one of eight teams competing on the annual Philly Pinoy Filipino Winter League (FWL), where we are currently #1 after three weeks of regulation play.  

I am looking forward to playing at my first tournament in March at Limerick Bowl, an event held yearly by my coach Donna Roberts.  At Donna's prompting, I am also looking forward to switching from my current 11-lb bowling ball arsenal, to a 12-lb new Ebonite Cyclone (Spinderella's red hot Fireball sister, yet unnamed), and hoping that this new "relationship" would translate to me having a "ball" at the Palace each time I play.  I am ever hopeful that this 2014, having more "Super Bowls" of my own can be possible... BowlStar!

So let me close my hopeful prose with some hope filled poetry:

I sometimes play good

Sometimes real bad

Most of the time just OK

I just wish I would

Not get too too sad

Thinking bad times are here to stay =(

There are angels around

And somehow I found

They let more good times come my way

They bring lessons to take

Good habits to make

Tips for keeping my demons at bay ;)

So I must stay hopeful

Banish my doubt, pull

Together and positively

Bowl with joy in my soul

As I inch towards my goal

Of being the best bowler that I can be!

I wish y'all the best year bowling ever!  See yah at the lanes!