Ok... tried to follow a pattern I had in my book only to figure out that it was too weird to understand.
So modifications: My son wanted a short sock. Hmm what to do what to do. Well I ended up making the cuff 48 stitches then 4k 4p in rounds to make ribbing till my width was around 1 6/8" equaling the length that my son approved of. lol.. then...dead stop... I was staring at the instructions again with a puzzle because they said some weird stuff that didn't make any sense to me no matter how I looked at it.
Trying to follow, I ended up using one of the two 12 looped dpn's instead of the 24 that I "set aside" so I was using the 12 for the heel flap and thought out loud, "What the hell... who can fit their heel in this little area?! Well especially not my son!!!! There has to be something wrong with it ... just has to be," as I was turning the heel... Nothing made any sense! So I pulled everything out to the cuff threw it down, typed I quit in my IM and stomped out to get some water and a break.
My best friend and I were camming as I call it. And she must be use to it by now.. noticed I was getting upset. The angel that she is.. she devised a little demonstration on video for me for the heel flap. So I take a sip of water and a deep breath and this time putting 24 loops on a stitch holder for use for the top of the sock to work on later and 24 for use for the heel flap on one dpn(double pointed needle). I of course the village idiot... decided wow cool about the video and went ahead and did it wrong anyway. Although I did use a slip stitch at the beginning of each row of the heel flap... No sl stitch & knit for me apparently I didn't want to do this part even though it was what my bff was specifically showing in the video!! I think I was so distraught I had to start over after some progress on it (after a seemingly endless stare at the instructions) that by the time I realized I was doing it wrong AGAIN... I said "frack it!!" and just kept doing what I already had been doing p (ws) and k (rs). So it just looks like stockinette for the heel flap. No biggie I guess, I can always reinforce it later at the heel if need be.
Here's a picture of what I have so far.
I'm on my last row for the heel flap before starting the heel turn
That's my stitch counter on my stitch holder at the bottom
The pattern calls for 24 worked rows --12 chained selvage sts.
My sock pattern: (Large Adult) ~Ankle socks~
Cuff:
CO 48
4k 4p repeat pattern in rounds till about 1 3/4" (or about 17 rows)
Divide into two sections to be worked:
Half on a pin holder for the top of sock (to be worked later)
Other half (working half) goes on one DPN (use the starting stitch tail as the middle marker of your working half . You will need to use a sl stitch pearl wise to get all 24 stitches onto the dpn)
Heel Flap:
*(ws) Sl stitch pearl wise with no twisting , P(ws) across
turn (rs) Sl stitch pearl wise with no twisting, K(rs) across
Repeat from *
(This forms stockinette for the heel)
Work 24 rows and you should have 12 chain selvage sts
Turn Heel:
This is a work in progress but I will write the rest when I finish so I can copy it for my other sock. :)
I used a different colored string to hold the loops if I needed to redo an area.
Also put rings on the selvages to help me find the exact areas I want for the gusset pickups.
with things n stuff. Mostly going to the museum and zoo with my son who's visiting from Japan. He's leaving this coming week and trying to fit in as many "fun" things as possible with limited amount of money. Woo hoo! Which means I also get to get out and stretch my wings a bit. See the City and view the sites. However.. hehe getting stuck in NYC with no money and no phone etc. Isn't my idea of fun times. After this unfortunate incident... I decided I needed something to put my "things" in. Now I have a purse that's the right size somewhere... and that's the problem. I'm really not very organized and it bothers me much.. but I'm not all that motivated to be organized since half of my things are packed away in the garage and no place to put them even if they weren't. Soooo~ I decided before heading out to the zoo yesterday that I needed to definitely make something to carry things in. It's my own pattern ... it's not fancy but it serves the purpose. basically it's all dch in crochet. I finished sewing in the liner just as we were leaving. :) I was surprised but it only took me a day and only 2 skeins (a little more from a third) Used my bulky Caron soft quick in black. 
Finally cast on... (learned how to do a cast on by hand which was really cool) I had first had a 50 stitch as my 100 percent (leg and largest circumference of foot) But found.. well that the ribbing and all such else such as dividing got pretty dumb. Besides that I felt really brain-dead actually sitting there trying to figure it out how exactly to connect those three dpn's. I knew it was just a matter of slowing myself down (reading) cause I get too hyper at first and I want to osmosis the whole book at once. Why isn't this possible?! Oh well... and when I can't figure something out... i get a bit aggravated. Especially when there's a big stupid fly stuck in the house buzzing around and you can't kill it. I don't want to be told "how to" unless I absolutely can't figure it out for myself from tutorials or books. Because it's more of a sense of accomplishment when I actually figure it out for myself. So anyway finally got my sock on and started some ribbing 4k 4p. I reduced the 50 stitches to 48 which can be divided by 3 Yay. 
