Power is back on, and now I'm watching this interesting movie called "Enemy of the State". I'm going to have to rent it to see the beginning.

Power Outage

There's a power outage in my neighbourhood. It happened just as I watching the Eagles/Falcons game. I'm sure hardcore football enthusiasts not to mention bars are upset by the lack of power.

I'm listening to the news, and surfing the net on my baby laptop. The phone lines are still working, and I just put some batteries in my portable cd player in case I want to listen to music. The radio news is reporting that PG&E has no idea how long the outage will last or why it happened.

I'm very well prepared for emergencies, so I'm okay. This is a good test of my preps, but what an inconvenience. I've been thinking of buying a battery operated TV for emergencies, and now I think I will.

So on a wild whim, I went back to Sears to try on a Lands' End size pants. And they FIT!!! The waist is snug, but that's okay because on the Lands' End website you can buy pants with stretchy waist. I like buying pants from Lands' End because they have stretchy waist pants, and they'll hem your pants to any length. I can buy pants to fit my bum, but then the waist doesn't fit or it's too long and usually both. You can now even order jeans and chinos fit to measure your body exactly on the Lands' End website, if you have serious problems with finding pants that fit.

So I'm my fantasy size 8, which I've always wanted to be for such a long time and I'm not even at my goal weight yet. I think Lands' End sizes run big so I'm probably still a size 10 in other brands, but who cares. I'm my fantasy size 8. What a trip! There was a woman on Craig's List who wrote a post about how much easier it is to navigate the world of men and dating in a size 8 butt, as oppposed to a size 16 butt which is what I used to be. I think I copied it, so If I find I'll post it. It was a good writeup.

The whole thing new size thing is blowing my mind because at my thinnest in college, I was a size 4/6. My butt measurement is one inch away from my butt measurement in high school, which is really cool.

I was sitting at the mall eating my veggie delite subway sandwhich, my heavenly baked Frito Lay Dorito nacho cheese chips (one bag is 170 calories), and drinking diet pepsi and thinking to myself, is working out and eating low calorie for the rest of my life worth a fantasy size 8 butt and miraculous maybe size 4/6 butt. And my answer was "HELL YEAH!".

Now if I could only just get that washboard abs look I've always wanted, but have never had.

Movies watched since June 2002 when I started keeping track:
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A walk to remember
Amelie
Blade
Blue Crush
Changing lanes
Clerks
Die Another Day - James Bond 007
Dogtown & Zboys
Donnie Darko
Dragonfly
For the love of the game
From Hell
Gone with the wind
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Hedwig & the angry inch
High Fidelity
Hollywood ending
Kpax
Lagaan
Lantana
Life is Beautiful
Merci pour le chocalat
Minority Report
Monsters inc
Mulholland Drive
Oceans 11
Panic Room
Pay it forward
Pollock
Reign of Fire
Rivers & Tides- andrew goldsworthy
Serendipity
Signs
Stars Wars: Attack of the clones
The Big Lebowski
The Cat's Meow
The fast & the furious
The legend of bagger vance
The Man who wasn't there
The mothman prophecy
The Red Violin
The Ring
The Rookie
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Spanish Prisoner
The Tailor of Panama
The time machine
The virgin suicides
Triple X
What women want
Wonderboys