Sock Addiction

Ok, I know I'm now completely addicted to sock knitting. I realized that I may or may not have enough to yarn to do the toe & heel on first Knit Picks Parade "Gumball" socks using the afterthought heel. What should I do? Hop online and order $30 more sock yarn, of course! I picked up 1 skein of each of the 3 colorways I bought last time, 2 skeins of the fingeringweight Crayons colorway, 3 skeins of a blue/black colorway of the fingering weight yarn for dh's socks. I love the afterthought heel idea. Now, when I'm cursing about doing the heel in a few days, remind me I said this. But my big hangup with socks is that I get stuck at the heel/gusset because I hate having to pay attention to what decreasing I need to do. I feel like I spend all my time counting and recounting. This method allows me to spend my knitting time actually knitting, and then when the time comes to do the heel, I can choose a quiet time when I have the ability to pay attention to what I'm doing. I've whipped up most of a sock in the past 2 days. I can even get dh's big socks done within a week at this rate. With the sucky winter weather upon us, I will probably stay indoors during my lunch break and just work on my sock at my desk like I did today. The thing I love about striping yarn is that it's so easy to see progress and measure how much of the knitting you want to get done in a specific amount of time. I usually pull 1 stripe of yarn out of the ball at a time so I can see that I'm making progress as I go. I might need to buy more dpns, which I never thought I'd have to do, since I had so many. But now I can see myself having a pair on the needles at home and at work at the same time. I just hope that I don't regret spending the money on the lighter weight yarns. I have a lot of them already, but sometimes the stuff you already have doesn't inspire you. I also picked up some natural undyed lace weight wool to make into either a lace scarf or shawl. I image painting it with dye after it's knit up... with polka dots and wiggles.