Building a Better Dave

This weekend I attended the wedding of my ex-wife. Awkward? Maybe a little, but not really. I am getting more comfortable in my role as a "family friend."

I got to bust out my prayer licks and freestyle a prayer. I got to meet what would've been my step-grandkids.

It's one thing to go to a wedding because you have to, but in looking back it's cool to go because you're invited.

My brother leaves for Floriday and my family celebrates Christmas before he leaves (in this case almost two weeks early). It was a great time with family, food, and loud squeals of delight over one gift.

The gift is highly confusing for me. It's a what? Like, really?

Yeah... I don't get it.

I was singing some Christmas songs in the kitchen when a very strange question popped in my head. What if the birth of Jesus happened today?

Merry Happy Whatever. It's like fuller house without the boobs.

The Irishman - Great cast. Three and a half hours. Surprise (spoiler) a bunch of mom guys whack people. Shocking.

The Movies That Made Us - So far this is great. I love all the behind the scenes info.

Back in the Game - It's easy to see why these people are broke.

Hamilton Beach " Smokeless Indoor Grill"

WOW 2019 is almost over. Matthew Dicks has an exercise he swears will slow things down. You write a sentence or two about your day. So many people think they don't have stories. They do, but they don't remember them. I'm trying to do this and it's cool but it takes discipline.

Here is Mathew Dicks on YouTube

Sports are kind of weird as we:

• Watch millionaires comment on
• Athletic millionaires
• In front of people who can't afford the tickets
• Who can't afford the parking or the $7 hot dog

Their comments have zero outcome on the game, but it gets us wound up. We all want to be winners and those colors for my team represent ME, and I want to be a winner. If we lose our day is shot.

For me, I was happy I started the day with

• 20 minutes on the bike
• skipping breakfast
• having one giant meal and not going over my calorie budget
• Seeing my family including the little peeps.
• I was also happy that on the way home, I skipped all the fast food (even though I was thinking about it).
• I went to best buy and now I'm trying to figure out if I need the indoor smokeless grill.... (by the way Best Buy has this as a deal at $69, but its $59 on Amazon). In the end, I'm leaning toward this Hamilton Beach (I already have a George Forman...)

Al Roker battles butter man

E.T. Holiday Reunion Commercial 2019

Today I talk about some steps I took to make riding my new exercise bike a little easier. It brought back some memories.

I also apologize to anyone I may have offended by saying this podcast was not great.

Set a goal you have to grow into. I like that phrase.

Dolly Parton Confuses me. She comes across as family-friendly. We all know she has giant boobs, and somewhat defies gravity when she stands up.

I thought it was inappropriate when she openly flirts with Jimmy Fallon and seems to be a little weird.

She talked about how her husband wants a threesome (jokingly with Jennifer Anniston).

The first episode of heartstrings has Julianne Hough playing Jolene who also has her boobs hanging out in every scene. I guess I'm just confused. How can we have t-shirts that say "Hey my eyes are up here" and then when you have a woman in charge and influences her own series and it features boobs o' plenty.

Some might say, "its just Dolly being Dolly, and she's done this her entire life," I just find it confusing.

A four-page typed up a letter from what I believe is my Great-great-grandfather as he talks about the days Oklahoma becomes a state. This makes me believe I was born to be a podcaster.

I was also glad to hear nobody got molested.

Today I share some thoughts about a new large purchase for the Nordictrack S22i, and how I made some changes to be able to afford it.

I'm also using the Noom App, which has some pretty cool stuff (think weight watchers accountability in an app).