Day 200: Update on Goals

Shockingly, it's day 200 of the year already. So, time for another update on goals:

• Books: As I noted a few weeks ago, I'm now hopelessly behind on my reading - I've completed only 20 books, and have read essentially nothing in all of July. I won't be hitting the 60 book target, or anything close to it, and the jury is out on whether I'll finish The List this year - there are four books to go, which shouldn't be impossible but is looking increasingly tight.
• Weight: The update here is devastating - shortly after returning to the office I lost a fair bit of weight, only for it all to come piling back on. I don't even know what happened there; I dropped weight because I essentially stopped snacking, but I didn't start again prior to it coming back. Sigh.
• Blogging: By day 200 I should have written 65.75 posts here. That puts me 7 behind target. As with the reading, I've largely skipped all of July so far, but am gradually picking up the slack again. I've posted 30 times on the Imaginarium, and again haven't posted in July.
• Redecorating the Hallway: We've concluded that we're not able to do the decorating ourselves this time - stripping the wallpaper from above the stairs is a tougher job than we can manage. So the intent is to get someone in to do it for us this time, with the expectation that we will be able to repaint it in future.
• Super Secret Goal: I said last time that I'd be in a position to make a definitive decision on this by now... and I still can't. That's frustrating, to say the least. I think the answer to that is that I'm going to have to spend some time exploring my options, and then see where things go. (There's more to say on this one, much more, but it's a topic I don't blog about.)

And that's the update. It's a poor one this time, filled with setbacks and frustrations. Which is about right.