a heart with a twist of lemon

i'm easily amused. which can be a bad thing.

when i have days off from work, it's easy for me to coop myself up in the house. there's plenty to do. play video games. watch the twins on tv. explore the vast expanse of the internets.

on saturday mornings, my new thing to do is watch the spectacular spider-man. there are a number of things that led to this decision. it's on tv about the same time i wake up. i like cartoons and comic book stories. but what really gets me about this show is the theme song. and since they play two episodes back to back, i get to listen to it twice every saturday. it''s overly poppy and overly catchy. the chorus (if a theme jingle can really have a chorus) goes like, "speck-tack-U-lar, speck-tack-U-lar spiderman (repeat)."

when i finally decided to uncoop myself from the house and enjoy the sunshine, i couldn't shake the song. i walked to lake harriet to finish a book i had been reading. as i traded smiles with every passer-byer, i quietly sang to myself, "speck-tack-U-lar, speck-tack-U-lar spiderman." some people didn't smile back, they need to watch more saturday morning cartoons to brighten their day a little.

i found a nice bench on the northeast corner of the lake to sit and read my book. i had to get past the east side of the lake. the east side of the lake smells like a turd on sunny days. i've been told it's due to the lake turning over or something, i didn't completely get it. i just knows it smells like a turd. and i can't read a book in a turd smelling spot. so i sat and read my book in a sunny spot that was turd free.

i kind of forget where i was going with this, but i finished the rest of my book and walked home. even after reading the final chapters of blue like jazz, i still had the "speck-tack-U-lar, speck-tack-U-lar spiderman" song stuck in my head.