Needles!!!

Figures....the day after I call and complain about a late package, it comes. It CAME!! My new needles are here!!! Yipee!! Now the only question is to knit them with circulars or dpns.
All the waiting was forcing me to look at my WIP's and the lists of things to knit by Christmas. I currently have only one Christmas gift to knit and it was going to be this:



Now, I've decided to frog what little progress has been made there and make this instead:



I think it will be a) more enjoyable to knit b) quicker to finish and c) more usable for its recipient. I could be wrong, we'll see.