it was pretty easy

Today I logged my activity into the Presidential Champion website and crossed the Bronze Award—40,000 points—line. To earn it you had to be active. Everything from real exercise like aerobics and swimming, to mowing the lawn and playing games with children. Anybody could do it, except maybe my one sister, who spends the bulk of her day in a yellow Lazy-Boy.

You need to pay attention to your activity. Yesterday I logged lawn mowing, gardening, household tasks (laundry--in the basement and walking it outside to hang and dry), walking, and stairs.  Stairs are interesting. On a typical no laundry day, I put in 5 minutes. That's about five trips to the second floor. On laundry day I put in 10. On Lafayette Days 20. I make at least 4 round trips to the 3rd floor, and numerous trips to the second.

In most categories there are levels like light, medium, hard or light, moderate, strenuous. The more difficult, the more points. They add up pretty quickly.

I was disappointed I couldn't download my certificate. They want you to send for a paper one. My scrapbooks are created digitally, that would be useless.  Oh well. I could order a medal, but what would I do with that?

Next stop, silver. 90,000 points. Training for the half marathon that should be easy to obtain. I might squeak out gold by the end of the year. I think it's 160K. No way I'll get to platinum this year: It's 1 million points!