I had to have them.

Birthday candles, but–in Roman numerals.

I’ve always rather liked roman numerals. I always mentally convert the ones at the ends of tv shows and movies. In fact, in the one computer programming class I had in high school (in FORTRAN, of all things, this was a while ago), my final project was writing a program to convert numbers to Roman numerals. I think they’re fun, and when I saw these candles a couple months ago, I decided I couldn’t resist.

Besides, think how great the photo album photos will be with the years counting by in classic, alphabetic fashion rather than boring old Arabic numerals.

The only problem was that they were back-ordered, and I was afraid they would miss our family birthday season altogether, but they squeaked in just before Chappy’s birthday next week. Phew!

He’s so excited. He’s going to be IX on the VIIth of July, you know.

Oh, and you’ll be interested to know that I sewed buttons onto my sweater. They’re a bluish pearl-gray with this really subtle little flower. They’re really perfect.

Does this mean the sweater is wearable? I’m not entirely sure. I blocked it as wide as I could and it almost kind of sort of fits. It would fit if my waistline were smaller. (Do we really want to discuss my waistline? Not really. Any extra weight I ever get goes right to my stomach and I should really know better than to knit sweaters with waist-shaping. It’s my own fault. It’s just that, since this was knit in pieces and then sewn together, there was really no way to know if it would fit correctly until it was done. Sigh.

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