Happy July Friends!

I have finally joined Twitter. Well, for real this time. A few years back when pretty much no one was on twitter, I signed up. Then, since no one was on it that I knew, I never really looked at it again. So now, I sign up for real, but feel tremendously behind. If you’re all atwitter yourself- let me know or be my FOLLOWER so I feel important!

My name is @merigoesround. Mom, you can disregard this- I don’t think you’d like twitter yet. Maybe in a few years.

Speaking of my mom, they had a horrible storm this evening. They lost three trees and have a basement full of water again. This ridiculous weather has me ranting and raving…

A new blog month is born, people… get ready. Meri Rants and Raves ALL MONTH LONG. Things I love, things I hate, and things I just don’t understand. I invite commiseration, explanation, and opinions galore. Some days I will be full of love for a product or person or phenemenon… (and by the way, if you want to have a little rant of your own about the fact that I frequently reference myself in the third person like a pretentious d-bag, I can take it).

and some days, like today, you’re gonna hear about the S&$# storms I see in the world. Or just the thunderstorms I guess.

For example, yesterday, it was 98 degrees and rising (Does Nick Lachey have that copywrited?) and the sky looked like this:

Incredible, right? Then today, it was bright and sunny and hotter than sin again. It was so bright that you can’t even see the lemonade in the cup that I bought walking home from work:

and then a few hours later, the sky turned to this before it opened up into pure weather garbage and dropped 25 degrees, destroying everything in the way again:

This weather makes a mockery of the meteorologists. It makes planning ahead for anything simply impossible. I would love to take days off this summer to spend time with friends and family- but how am I to plan a hot air balloon ride or a day of berry picking a month in advance when the weather could be hailing meatballs and pancakes by then for all I know?

I don’t mind a little rain. I enjoy it, actually, as you can see in some of my recent posts. But I don’t like hearing about North Minneapolis getting ravaged by tornados. I don’t like it so hot that I can’t even walk to the store without worrying about dehydration. And I really don’t like my parents’ basement full of water. Again.

So Mr. Sun… how about you play nice for a couple of days? There’s been some tragedy in my family today and I think we could all use a little bit of a break, weather-wise.

I now open it up to all of you: what rants and raves do you have that you’d like me to cover? I have some ideas already- products I want to rave about, books I love, and things that make me nutbags crazy. But I always have room for more ideas!

Cheers, and stay safe in this crazy El Nino Apocolypse…

Meri