O:DAT – Week of January 2nd through January 8th

Monday – Make a robot out of spare things in the house

Tuesday – Run five miles

Wednesday – Discover an absurd phenomenon

Thursday – Build a marshmallow mask

Friday – Have the best day of work ever

Saturday – ?????

Some quick notes:

I really enjoyed this last week, and I plan to continue doing things into the indefinite future. That said, with a week of experience under my belt, there's some aspects of the adventure I need to tweak.

My goal of playing in the snow for two hours this past Saturday did not come to fruition. The chief reason being that in the last week all of the snow melted and then froze into giant slabs of sharp ice. I was loath to skip doing a thing, but I was also fairly busy with the holiday and with finishing up the posts on my other goals.

In the future I'm going to leave Saturday up in the air until Saturday morning. Reasoning: I usually do a thing with friends on Saturday, and I would hate to miss out on an exciting event because I arbitrarily decided a week in advance that I would be reading the entire dictionary that day. Also, they might be lame easy things like, "Eat a delicious sandwich," but whatever, it's Saturday.

Also, I would like it to be known that, while I may not get around to finishing a post until a day or two after I do the thing, I'm definitely doing a thing on the day that I say that I'm doing a thing. Except for the playing in the snow thing that I never did. But whenever we get snow again I'm going to shoehorn that one into the do a thing schedule too.

And I'm realizing that even though I think that using the word "thing" over and over in my posts is funny, It's probably kind of confusing too.