a very important post

i'll start with the less important stuffs. here are a couple cell phone pictures that i put on facebook recently. this first one i took a week before christmas, when houston finally showed some semblance of autumn: 

i took this one at the arboretum the day after christmas:

i just tried to pull the other pictures off of my phone but i can't figure it out and i don't want to send them all through facebook to get them. we wandered down through a tunnel and along one of grant's new bike paths.

yesterday it rained. when mother nature sends houston rain, she's not messing around (1.6 inches in 10 minutes). the sky was throwing buckets of water down. several friends ended up stranded when the roads began flooding. i was lucky enough to decide last minute not to go to my yoga class. a good decision since i definitely would have gotten stuck along the way.

i tried to get to a store around 4 in the afternoon and several roads were still flooded and blocked. it took grant's bus 2 hours to get him home (it's usually 30-40 minutes). i took this picture of the bayou that i run along:

here's a better before and after of a bayou on my friends blog. another friend's garage flooded. it was crazy.

***now for the really important part of this post: in 4 days 13 hours 49 minutes until the marathon! i'm pretty nervous even though i've prepared. my goal is to finish and still have working legs. grant will be running the half. you can recieve text message updates for both of us. my bib number is 12064. grant's is 26028. cheer us on in spirit!