36

So Margie bought me some Size 36s, and of the three pair, two actually fit. Comfortably. Ye gods.

Of course, one problem with wearing pants that fit is that the pockets get remarkably small/tight. Which makes carrying around a wallet and keys and a PDA difficult when you don’t keep any of the above in your back pockets.

I know — tears of sympathy are welling up in your eyes at my hardship here.

I don’t know that I’m ready to announce that 36 is the Target Clothing Size for Holiday Purchases (for one thing, I haven’t lost any weight, so I don’t know where the waist change has gone), but I am willing to tentatively revel in having dropped three pants sizes since March.