More Sock Yarn

Well, I couldn't resist the Knitpicks email yesterday, so I ordered 11 skeins of sock yarn last night. Enough for 4 pairs for me and 1 for dh. How could I resist, at 2.99/ball? Dh said, "well, order $20 worth" when I mentioned that there was a good deal on the yarn. I said, "But, button - it's free shipping if you spend $30" and then he said to go ahead, it was better to spend $30 on 10 balls of yarn than hundreds of dollars on a few, like I tend to do. And, I also got 3 balls in a manly-ish colorway to make him a pair of socks. He likes the Regia socks I made him and reminded me that I'd started a pair for him. I didn't feel like working on those, so I pulled out the yarn I got from Smiley's a while back and started a pair of boring ribbed socks from my Vogue Knitting on the Go book (I think it was Socks II). I'm about 2" into the cuff on the first sock, using size 1 needles and green/beige/grey yarn that looks sort of camoflauge-y. I hate ribbing, but I'm going to force myself to follow this pattern. If I finish a pair for dh, I can work on the next pair for myself without feeling guilty about it. I still need to finish up the pair for my mom as well. Those are being done with the Magic Loop method and I get tired of dealing with that in short spurts - it's hard to get back in the groove.