A weekend of odd thoughts

I had a weird, oversensitive reaction today to the word valuable (as in, Do not bring valuables into the club at McGym). Value-able... it should mean "that which can be valued." But almost anything can be valued, by someone, under the right circumstances, and I don't find it remotely appealing that a health club (or anyone) is making that judgement call on what I might value. Things that are valued should be called valueds, if anything. Do not bring things you value highly into the club--yes, that I could be on board with. Sigh. It's a wonder anyone can think straight in English at all, with all the distortions built into the language.

( My weekend: bookstore shock, new linen closet, musings on my untalented bod, and so on. )

My face looked nice this whole weekend--the new year's resolution slowly winning out, I hope.