Sock Stress

I have wanted to learn to knit socks.

A lady is teaching me how.

I have had several fits and starts trying to accomplish this.

I've lost track of how many times I've started this sock.

Yesterday, my sock was going good, and looked like this:

I had a good inch of ribbing accomplished. I sat down and was happily knitting-and-purling-and-knitting-and-purling.

Then it happened.

The needle slipped out, and I dropped two stitches. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

No matter how hard I tried and worked with it, I couldn't recover them. So then it looked like this:

Now, today, I am in the process of ONCE AGAIN starting this sock.