Trouble in Craftworld

I have had a run of bad luck in my knitting adventures. I ran out of sock yarn at the toe of my second sock and have to buy a skoach more yarn to finish (but am on a budget for a while.) So then the new yarn I bought to make my suede tank top didn't work out either. It turns out weight DOES matter in a yarn, even if the yards match up. On a size 5, I still couldn't get the gauge for the pattern to work out (that called for a size 9 needle.) I am going to have to rewrite the pattern which ranks right up there with the cocoon shrug I have been procrastinating on. So I switched back to that cross-stitch I was working on a few months back (the one I have been almost done with for months) and thought I was finally stitching up the last of it. Ugh. Every time I finished one color I would find a spot I missed before. So I put that away too. Then, I started knitting on my boucle peasant top and I am having gauge issues with that too. So I threw up my hands and have been focusing on reading. I finished the last 30 pages at lunch today of the book I was reading for my book club that was last night. Darn it! So I went to the library to get my next book, but they were all out. I am on hold for a book from another library and should be getting that in the next couple of days. A DVD I have been waiting for has been "in transit" for about two weeks now too so I am also going to have to call on that. On the upside, I am going to check out Handmade in Eagle for the monthly SnB (aka knitting club) meeting on Saturday and I am hoping to get a small amount of sock yarn to finish up my sock, plus maybe one new skein to get back into Christmas projects again. (It just goes to show you that "yarn" and "budget" do not belong in the same language together. The book store my club is at has a couch with no pillows so I think I am going to make some Sugar n Cream (maybe even in crochet) items for them too. We'll see. My ambition for projects definitely outweighs my available time. Speaking of which....