These socks will NOT beat me

Just when I was starting to think I had any concept of what I was doing as a knitter, things start to go comically wrong.  Mom's scarf is knitting up like a dream (although the pattern is pretty simple so perhaps I shouldn't be too proud).

Oh but the socks...the socks and I are in a fight.  After realizing that I couldn't read a pattern for shite, I cast on again and was knitting along, everything was looking great(ish) and then I forgot where I was in pattern and COULD NOT ascertain where I left off...so I felt like a genius and have cast on again.

Frogging stinks.

But my 3x3 rib is gorgeous (and is p3, k3 this time as written).

But this sock will not beat me.  I will win!  I will triumph.  It's going to be gorgeous.

Also, in my obsessive perusing of blogs and Ravelry, I came up with a sock pattern to knit for one of The CEO's family that is so perfect for this person I almost giggled.  Plus, its clever, different, and attached to a pop culture reference. I just wish the yarn maker were not defunct.  Sigh.

Does anyone have a skein of Little Red Bicycle Sock Yarn in Ozark Wisteria stashed?

Or have another suggestion?

NoM

~EK