I should know better, or Tales of a Drowsy Housewife

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Again, I woke up, not able to go back to sleep. It was about the time of the clock change for daylight savings time. When I laid in bed about an hour I decided I should get up and be productive. Also eat a snack. My husband has wanted me to do a homemade version of a cranberry bread like we bought at the store last week. I figure a raisin bread recipe, with cranberries instead, would do just fine. I got some of my yeast out of the refrigerator. I figured it would be dead, I have had it so long, but it surprised me when I proofed it. I got my bread machine out, and was walking back and forth through the kitchen getting ingredients. Wouldn't you know it, the sleeve of my housecoat caught on a glass container on a shelf and knocked it down. So, once I had the ingredients measured into the bread machine, I had to sweep up broken glass. I KNOW that cooking in a housecoat is hazardous in many ways. I really like short sleeves when I cook. Now some of you are going to get on my case about the bread machine. I like it to mix up the bread because I add less flour in, because I am not kneading it. The ingredients get mixed more thoroughly as well. I do not like to bake the bread in it. It gets a hole in the bottom from the paddle of the machine. I will take this dough out and form it into two loaves when it has done all the cycles in the machine. That is my mix of the old and the new. I could go back to bed for a while.