Reward or Disaster?

So here are my November Sock Gang Socks. When they send us the wool instead of sending one big skein they send us two skeins that are just the right size for one sock. This seems like a good plan because then you don't have to guess when you've used half a skein, or figure out some way to divide a big skein into two equal parts. Unfortunately these socks are a good example of what can go wrong with this system. While they're both made up of the same colors, the color distribution is a little different between them. So now my dilemma is this: Do I live with mismatched socks, or do I rip them back and use one skein for the foot portion of both socks and the other skein for the upper portion? The slacker in me says,"They're just socks for crying out loud. Live on the edge!" The type A part of me (which is small but loud) says, "You'll never wear them and every time you look at them you'll be annoyed." I'm afraid that the type A part is going to win, but I'm going to let them sit for a few days before I commit myself.

While that decision marniates, I can work on this. -> When we have our guild Christmas party we do a gift exchange. We all bring a gift, then draw numbers to see who gets to choose first. When it's your turn you get to either take an unopened gift or choose something that someone else has opened already. I brought Daughter with me to the party and I told her as we were drawing numbers that we wanted a big number so we could choose something good that was already opened if we wanted. I told her this was the one time you don't want to be first. Naturally we drew number 1. I sent Daughter up to pick us out a good gift and she came back with the biggest box on the table. (Remember, she's 8.) We opened it and it was a beautiful shawl that one of our members had made, out of Jane Sowerby's book, Victorian Lace Today. It was soft, it was luxurious, it was stolen by the person with #4. Daughter was crushed; she WANTED that shawl. So in a moment of motherly weakness I told her that I had the book and I would make her the shawl. I figured she would forget about it 2 days later, but she has reminded me of it every couple of days. So we finally got out the book, looked through it, and she picked out a stole she really likes. Luckily it is a relatively easy pattern, and I still have a lot of wool left from Joyce's Stole. She's informed me that it needs to be done by her birthday (July 1) so I'm even good time-wise. Either I'm being rewarded by the knitting muses for the bad socks, or they're setting me up for some kind of disaster. Can't wait to see which it turns out to be.