I don't know if I've mentioned this before but when I was in middle school my dad was diagnosed with throat cancer. He's still kickin' and has been cancer free for nearly ten years but the radiation gave him some complications to deal with once the cancer was gone. Basically just three things....
1.) He lost all working glands that produce saliva in his mouth.
2.)Nerve damage in his neck and upper spine
3.) The radiation caused his teeth to rot out and he had to have most of them removed.

So they removed all but 6 teeth maybe 8 years ago and gave him this weird dental contraption to hold the dentures in.
But yesterday he had to get the remaining 6 teeth removed.
He seems to be doing MUCH better than what he was the first time he had his teeth removed. I'm so thankful for that! He was in so much pain last time around.

Anyway, for those of you that pray just keep him in mind because they don't know what they're going to do denture wise for him this time around. Its complicated because of the radiation he had.


Anyway...
My best friend got engaged and they picked out a venue for the wedding....at a very reasonable price of $11,000!!!!! Holy shit!!!! That's SOOOOOO much money just on the location alone!!!
Crazy!!
She was saying to me "The average wedding cost about 20-25 thousand dollars"
o.O
What the crap?!
That money could be going to so many other things!!!!
Me, personally, I'll rent a simple hall get married in my church and use that money on a down payment on a house/my honeymoon and call it a day!

My mother said that for her wedding, her aunts and sisters made all the food themselves. Now I don't think I'd go that far....but should you really spend that much money on a wedding?
I guess to each his own.
or her own.....or is it to each ITS own...?

*shrug*

Anyway, I think I'm going to go try and look busy at work some more....its been so slow for the last week and a half! =(

I will keep your dad in my prayers.
And My fiance and I are keeping the wedding cheap. There's a lot of things you can do with $11,000 when your married lol
» Midnight on 2010-08-17 11:29:16

Making your own food for a wedding? Yeah, as fun as that sounds, I think I'd drop dead if I tried to do it. If/when I get married I can probably expect more than a hundred people, and making that much food would probably kill me. X|

I'm sure it would be very cost-efficient though. :P
» randomjunk on 2010-08-18 02:57:35

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