Accidentally hit 50 consecutive days of baking bread this morning

I started baking a loaf every day back in February just to use up my starter, and somehow I didn't realize until yesterday that I'd gone 50 days straight without skipping. My kitchen counter has a permanent layer of flour dust and my coworkers are starting to avoid the break room. Has anyone else accidentally turned a little habit into a full blown routine and not noticed until way later?

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morganj8111d ago

Wait, have you been cleaning the same spoon every single day too? I went through a phase where I made sourdough pancakes every morning for like two months. Didn't realize until my neighbor asked if I owned a bakery. My fridge became a graveyard for failed starters and experiments - black garlic honey rye, rosemary olive oil, even a beetroot one that turned everything pink. The sink was always full of sticky bowls. Now I can't eat pancakes without thinking about that flour dust cloud following me around.

lunashah11d ago

Fifty days straight is no small thing. I once did sixty three days of homemade granola every single morning until my toaster oven smelled like burnt oats and I couldn't look at another almond. The flour dust on your counter, I get that completely. It seeps into everything, even the cracks in the floorboards. There is something about the rhythm though, isn't there? That quiet satisfaction of knowing you've done the same small thing every day, even if your coworkers hide when they see you coming. It feels almost sacred until you realize you've become the person everyone avoids at the break table.