steep and cheap

if you're into the great out-of-doors and you are into gear and you haven't yet experienced steepandcheap, you'll need to check it out stat. i keep an eye on it from time to time (it gets kind of addicting, consider yourself warned), and yesterday, to my great delight, one of the featured items was a women's climbing harness. i got a new Black Diamond harness for $23+ s&h. and its orchid!

moving on...whatever that stomach bug i got two weeks ago was, it came back on sunday. jim and i went out for a run and had breakfast afterward. i got home, took a shower and started feeling nauseous. not too long later all the other fun stomach issues came along and then the fever set in (a measily 100.7oF). as i tend to be the kid that never gets sick and this is the second time this has happened recently (on top of the stomach issues at boston, which namely involved not being able to eat), i decided to go see a doctor. dr. dale, who is going on my list of best doctors ever for his preference to treat conservatively and not immediately try to stick a needle in me, told me to wait a couple more days and see what happens. while i think this would make a lot of people mad (what? no medicine?!), it made me quite happy (yes! no medicine!).

in the meantime, my mom suggested i lay off the fiber until my stomach settled down. the only problem with this advice is that i've been a vegetarian for going on ~12.5 years now. i eat a lot of fiber. so i stood in the kitchen this morning, thinking 'ah, i can have this for breakfast! no, too much fiber...well, then i'll have this for breakfast! no, still too much fiber' and so on. it was sad. eventually i just gave up...there was a huge bag of ripe mangoes in the fridge. resistance at that point was futile (but delicious!).