Halfway

Today, we’re halfway through 2019. The first half has been pretty good, but also has had its downsides and irritations.

So in the second half, I’m aiming to get rid of some of those irritations, and to get some stuff done that’s been hanging around for a while.  I’m not saying it’ll definitely happen, but I’m going to try, at least.

One irritation for me – as I’ve said before – is how much the noise of flies (and other buzzy bugs) annoy me. It’s something that I just can’t tune out, for whatever reason. When the weather’s warm, the food I have for the cats attracts flies, so it gets deeply annoying after a while. In previous years I’ve bought small bug-killers and so on, but they’ve never proved to be overly effective.  So this year, I’ve finally bitten the bullet, and bought one of the classic ‘kitchen’ big blue bug zappers.

So far (and it only arrived today) it’s seeming pretty decent – although the zap is pretty noisy! Hopefully it’ll prove more effective than the previous ones, and any flies this year won’t annoy me as much.

After that, well, we’ll see what other stuff I can get done and what other irritations I can get rid of.