March 11th, 2009
Today’s workout video is Self: Your Best Butt, Fast. The video was created in 2005 from Self magazine. You work out your Abs, glutes, pretty much your entire lower area. The video is 45 minutes and is one of the best lower body workouts I have had in a long time! While the women doing the workout is way too tan and way too buff, the movements are made for anyone to do. The workout is divided into sections. The sections are kickboxing, weights, dance and yoga. This video also has a cool down at the end with some really nice stretches.
My recommendation is to definitely try this video for yourself if you are looking for something to work out those glutes! The difficulty can be ramped and it’s quite a workout!
Otherwise today, I spent some time looking for jobs and time updating GA. I’m off to get groceries and then back to GA before another job hunt round and then planning the night. I started reading Veronika decides to die last night which is being made into a movie with Sarah Michelle Geller. I hope to get a bit more playing time in tonight. But we’ll see.
I finished Flower last night. Definitely love the game but I do get tense when the environment gets dark and scary. It feels like the world is attacking my little petal that is just trying to spread color and happiness. A truely enjoyable experience from ThatGameCompany.
Trina ^_^
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February 26th, 2009
Last night I discovered Flower. Today I can’t focus. All I want to do is go home and play. At the same time though, I don’t want to rush it. I want to take things nice and slow and enjoy the experience.
I think Annette is doing the review on GA. I’m only three levels in and I can say that it’s quite extrodinary. There is nothing about Flower that is typical. The title doesn’t even fit in any game genre that I can think of.
In Flower you are the petal. Eventually you are a stream of petals. You race through landscapes making sure you tap each flower or group. You are succesful when the flower opens up and you hear a note. Each flower seems to have it’s own note which adds to the classically simple and beautiful score.
By holding down x you can increase the speed of your petal or group of petals. At times I found I gained too much speed and I would suddenly halt causing all the petals to swirl all around me like a moment in American Beauty. To be honest, I did this a few times just to watch it.
The beauty in Flower is that it’s almost not a game. There is an objective, but no time limit, forced path, enemies to fight. It just exists. Flower is a place for you to explore, no right or wrong. As someone that stresses all the time about anything, the stressfree environment of Flower almost seems wrong. Like I’m cheating.
I look forward to playing it again when I get home tonight. I hope that I don’t finish it all. I really enjoyed flOw from ThatGameCompany and they have accomplished something special and unique with Flower. Playstation Network seems to be a breeding ground for experimental, original, and beautiful games. I hope that Sony is able to continue to encourage such original creations in the future.
Now back to hoping it’s 5pm so I can play Flower.
Trina ^_^
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