Posted on Mar 26, 2009 under Way Off Topic |
I’m not sure how it happened but my Wii Fit playing has really slacked off lately. There’s always an excuse from “the floor is not clean” to “I’ll wake someone up if I play right now” to “Ugh. I have to get off the couch to do that!” Ok that last one is pretty lazy I admit. But lately it just seems I’ve hit a brick wall when it comes to doing Wii Fit.
Things were going well but it only takes a few days to really break a routine. It’s so hard to get back on it as I try to work in cleaning, blogging, errands, and other tasks into any given day.
I found a great community of Wii mommies that I hope will give me the motivation to get back on the losing track. I need all the help I can get.
Posted on Mar 11, 2009 under Game Talk |
Readers of my blog (all two of you!) know that I love reality TV. So it’s no surprise that the advertisements for Sci Fi’s new series ‘WCG Ultimate Gamer’ really caught my attention. I thought I had missed the premiere but was glad I didn’t. Thank goodness for DVR.
There are twelve gamers who must live together and do battle against each other to become the ultimate gamer. The grand prize includes $100,00 and a chance to compete in the World Cyber Games in China. Since there are twelve, I didn’t catch all of their names because they really seemed to focus on six. It is hard to get to everyone in an hour’s time. There is one player they all seem to think is the one to beat - Robert who has won five gaming championships.
Last night’s game was Rock Band 2. Players first had to do a real life challenge. The contestants were randomly put in a group. Then they had to learn the song ‘New Kid in School’ by the Donnas on real musical instruments. They had to perform the song in from of The Donnas who judged which band did the best job. From there, players were ranked from best to last. Those in the last group stood a good chance of having to face off to stay in the gamer’s loft.
Bands were split and reformed for the next part of the challenge that took part in the isolation chamber. Bands had to play one song and would then be ranked by band for their overall score as well as their individual score. The two scores would then determine who was at the bottom of the leaderboard and would have to do battle on the Samsung Stage.
Robert - the gamer everyone fears - would up at the bottom of the pack while Swoozie came out on top. Swoozie got to pick who would face off with Robert on stage. The loser goes home. Earlier in the show, Robert is talking alliance with Swoozie and Dante saying that whomever sticks with him will make top four.
Swoozie didn’t choose Ciji, the Rock band mistress of the house but instead chose JD - the sports gamer who had barely played Rock Band. Obviously Swoozie isn’t trying to get Robert out of the house which has the house abuzz as to what the heck is Swoozie thinking?!!?
JD practices all night and another loft mate shows him some tricks to Rock Band 2. Robert doesn’t practice at all. During the showdown, Robert outscores JD by at least 60,000 points. The easy-going, fun loving JD is kicked out of the loft.
There are 8 episodes of Ultimate Gamer. There’s a lot of game play involved as well as skill. Should be an interesting show as episode one was entertaining.
Posted on Mar 03, 2009 under Game Talk |
While at Toys R Us, I ran across this cute Zelda tin that has mints in it.
My husband quickly claimed it as his own and took it to work. He works with a lot of Zelda fans(and really who isn’t?) so he thought it would gain him some cred.
The mints taste horrible but the tin is so cute.
I’m not sure how it happened but my Wii Fit playing has really slacked off lately. There’s always an excuse from “the floor is not clean” to “I’ll wake someone up if I play right now” to “Ugh. I have to get off the couch to do that!” Ok that last one is pretty lazy I admit. But lately it just seems I’ve hit a brick wall when it comes to doing Wii Fit.