Do you ever hate your budget? Most of the time, I don’t mind being on a budget. We can afford everything we need and a lot of what we want, but not everything we want. It was brought home this week when the Seattle Opera announced the dates for the 2013 Ring Cycle performances (the cycle is performed over 4 nights).

The Ring Cycle is only performed once every 4 years here in Seattle, and C and I would both love to see it. But the cheapest tickets are $300 each. Now, overall, that’s only $75 per night of opera. But given everything going on right now, $600 is just not in our fun budget.

Who knows where we’ll be, life wise, 4 years from now, but you can bet that I’m going to have $600 (or more) socked away to pay for us to go see the Ring Cycle.