Did you know Jell-O could freeze? I didn’t. When I went to take some of the batch I’d made a couple days ago out of the refrigerator tonight, though, I found that one of the cups had frozen up. Guess it’s time to adjust the coolness setting in the fridge.
I let it defrost a bit then vigorously stirred it to break up the frozen bits. Frozen Jell-O tastes OK. A bit crunchy.
I’ve been a bit down the past few days and, not wanting to turn this blog into something overly self-absorbed (if that’s possible in a personal blog) or negative, I’ve refrained from posting. I’m feeling a bit better tonight.
I had to give one of my staff members a 30 day review today and had been quite nervous about it. I’ve had so many bad managers in the past that now that I myself am in a manager’s shoes, I want to make sure I do a better job of managing than what I had to cope with. It helps that the employee in question is overall doing a good job, but I was still somewhat nervous about getting it right. I wanted to hit just the right tone – positive, but still wanting to call attention to some areas that needed improvement. I’m reasonably sure I did. She seemed happy after we were done and things went smoothly the rest of the day at work, if that’s anything to judge by.
Business has picked up post-Xmas, which is also a reason for feeling more cheerful. It’s no fun to be bored at work. Plus, I’ve taken the holiday music CDs and packed them away until next year. I wanted to break them into little pieces and then toss the bits into the garbage, but decided that might be overkill.
