{On My Needles} The Logic of Cables

These socks are one of the oldest WIPs in my project tracker. The cables are fiddly and the yarn is just thin enough to make it an extra challenge. I'm also not good at decreasing five stitches down to one to close each cabled loop, but something finally clicked and I'm seeing what the chart wants me to do without checking the symbol key each time. 

There's a logic to how cables twist and turn and in theory I sort of get how it works, but in practice I've always been a bit hesitant. Maybe the stars are aligned just right, but suddenly this feels easy.

Please don't let me have jinxed myself by just typing that....