Annoyances

A couple things are annoying me right now. Yes, it's almost 2 A.M. which might explain most, if not all, of my menial complains, but I will share them with you anyways:

Cadence Socks:

Almost done. Yeah, almost. Because I ran out of yarn. At the toe of the second sock. That means I'll have to go buy another skein of this (expensive) yarn just to finish the toe! Then what am I going to do with the rest??? UGH. Look at it! It's just screaming "finish me! finish me!"

So, facing this tragedy, I started on socks for sister #2. I spotted this pattern a while back, the unoriginally titled "short socks." It almost sounds too good to be true. Socks on size 7's? Who has heard of such a thing? After doing the Cadence Socks on size 2's, I was so shocked to have to re-acclimate myself to the 7's.

What a monstrosity! You could whack someone over the head with these giant pillars of wood and kill them instantly.

The execution is easy enough, except for the pattern is complete gibberish. It's like one painfully long run-on sentence with random, unnecessary punctuation AND CAPS LOCK. "REMEMBER THE GUAGE!" it screams at you in the middle of a paragraph. Why? Shouldn't I have theoretically checked the gauge before starting? Even if I didn't, (I hardly ever do) why on earth would I check it now? You don't give the gauge for ribbing!
"NOTE: This pattern is written in American English. All measurements in charts are in cm."
Really? Does that make sense? It doesn't to me, but that might be the result of a lack of sleep on my part. 
In a more realistic sense of complaints: thrown in here and there are vague terms like "rib" which is supposed to imply 3x3 ribbing. The charts are also not the best. 


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It's decided: everyone is getting socks this year. I have sock fever! Except for Dad, who is getting this hat.