bread baking

*flops tiredly into chair* i have newfound respect for all of womankind who has come before me. i just spent that last 1hr 15min prepping dough for the first, repeat first rising. now, admittedly, a good chunk of that time (20ish minutes of it) was spent "peeling" an acorn squash with a knife that definitly needed to be sharper *sheepish* but the rest of that time was spent mixing it together. which doesnt make sense because its not like there are that many ingredients...i swear, bread baking creates folds in the fabric of time, opening vacumes that suck precious minutes away like umm, oreo cookie bits through a smoothie straw. and its still going to be about 2 hrs before the bread'll be, hopefully, cooked. i need to remember to start uberly long projects like this earlier in the day -_-