Jam woes - take two

I've made grapefruit syrup today. It looks gorgeous and it tastes heavenly, thank to the crystalized ginger added to the mix. The only problem is: it was supposed to be grapefruit jam. As in: non-liquid. But it didn't set, no matter what I tried. Even though I followed the YouTube recipe religiously. Well, almost - I added slightly less sugar because I thought 1:1 ought to be enough. Especially as other recipes (that go about the same way) require 1:2 or 1:1.5. I don't know what went wrong, but I'm very disappointed.

Needless to say that I gave up the idea of making lemon jam. *sigh* There have been enough failures lately. At least my orange jam is nice and thick.

Today was also big grocery shopping day. I haven't done it since last Thursday and we barely had any food in the house. I also paid Kik, Tedi and Pepco short visits, during which I displayed amazing restraint. Only a small craft kit from Pepco (to make funny snowmen) and an even smaller package of adorable Santa stickers from Kik found their way into my shopping bag.

After this and the jam failure I was just too tired to do much else. I worked a tiny bit on the star-shaped Christmas ornaments, but that was all. The rest of the afternoon was spent with crossword puzzles and playing Solitaire on my geriatric laptop. And now another day's gone, the month is almost over and I constantly feel like I'm way behind things. :(