Ankle Socks

Boy I had finished the heel, the flap and started to just knit happily along. Get an inch and a half along the foot, looked at the instructions, went oh shit, to realize that I had totally skipped the gusset. Fuck a duck! So I started to tear out stitch by stitch but decided to take the needles out and just rip. Thankfully I got close to the heal to start gusset. I am the only one who is going to wear these so I figured that I can put up with a cockeyed gusset. Was up to about 2:30 getting to the point I was pre gusset. Back is screaming and when I stopped, I had muscles in my right arm start to twitch. One bad thing was that I had switched from desk lamp to oil lamp, didn't secure the hood of the lamp, went to blow it out, hood slipped burnt the thumb part of the top of my hand and I have a nice burn/blister on my thumb where I hold needles. So think I will be using some ibuprofen before I try to finish this first sock.