Anxiousness and decisions

[missroserose]

Two of my friends are having potentially-serious medical issues today. This is not shaping up to be a worry-free weekend.

So I'm going to focus on a somewhat pleasanter problem: Money! Or more specifically, whether/where to spend it.

A local opera company is doing a Bacchanalia fundraiser. It looks like great fun - theatrical and operatic sketches, audience participation events, good food, togas, and of course lots of alcohol, hopefully including some good wine. (Several local hotels "within stumbling distance" are offering discounted rates, but Brian's not a big drinker so he'd probably be our driver.) I'd love to go and potentially bring Lydia, but tickets are $35 apiece, booze not included. It's for a good cause, of course, and I can afford it, but that's $100-$150 I could be saving.

And then, of course, there's an article in the paper this morning about how the local food bank and homeless shelters are running extremely short on donations this year - especially for their annual Thanksgiving dinner baskets they give out to needy families. Being 70 turkeys short (not to mention stuffing and yams and cranberry sauce) when you start giving them out on Monday is definitely pretty serious. And $100-$150 would buy an awful lot of cranberry sauce. Opera is great, true, but if it's between folks in Juneau not having opera and folks in Juneau not having Thanksgiving dinner, well...

So here are the options I'm looking at. And since I finally got around to upgrading my account and want to get my money's worth, I'm going to make it a poll.

[Poll #1301659]

Additional comments or other answers are, as always, welcome.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

There's a shock. Me going for the impulsive extravagant choice.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. You're not alone. Hell, I'm leaning in that direction myself. :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, are you a fan of KT Tunstall? I find that my favorite tracks of hers (like Matt Nathanson) are live cover performances, which usually don't get much circulation.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd call myself a "fan" - I don't follow her obsessively or anything. But I do have her two albums, and I enjoy them. So I'll listen to some more. :)

[alexmegami]

EXTRAVAGANCE!

I think one is the good thing to do, and one is good for my LJ reading. ;D

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! I do believe I detect a certain level of self-servingness in your motivations...*giggles* We will see.