Reach the unreachable stars

So clearly the universe was telling me today that I shouldn't try and bake English muffins and blueberry muffins because wow did everything go wrong:

1. Active dry yeast for my English muffins appears to have been dead. Had to add instant yeast and hope for the best.

2. Started creaming the butter and sugar for blueberry muffins and it smelled off. Took it to Dad and he confirmed it smelled like cheese. Had to throw it away and start over with margarine, while inwardly panicking because I used 1 tbsp of the same butter for the preferment of the English muffins (...which might have been what killed the yeast).

3. Started mixing the blueberry muffins with the flour and realized that I accidentally added a whole damn extra cup of flour when I was measuring. Added milk and sugar and hoped for the best.

4. English muffin recipe definitely does not make 8, or at least not when I make them.

5. Blueberry muffins tasted like sweet flour and the bland-ass water beans that are grocery store blueberries. Very glad I decided not to take out the last of my frozen U-Pick blueberries from last year.

So the lesson is that I'll swallow the cost of the King Arthur English muffin mix because it makes a lot more than homemade, I need to write down the recipe that I'm using for the blueberry muffins and make sure that I do the math for my substitutions on the recipe itself, and to mash up some of the baking butter before I start using it to be sure it didn't go bad on me.

Hopefully these English muffins will taste good.