From my F-List to my M-List........

YOU don't want to be on my "F-List"......I am tellin' you right now! Ain't nobody wanna be on the BULL's F-List!! Kids in my classes always ask me, "Is this for a grade???" . I tell 'em, "Life is for a GRADE....Don't FAIL!" Then they just stare at me (like I am in a storefront window), wondering if that person standing there is real or fake.

Actually, my F-list is really just my "February-List." My list of things to get done before February (the longest shortest month of the year) goes away. Do you have an "F-List"?? I am sure you do somewhere. And like mine, your F-list morphs into your M-list somehow and someway and the parade of 2006 continues to "march" on to the same percussive cadence that says, "Pick it up...no slackin'...the parade ain't over yet!"

I have a problem this year..........I need a leap year to get me just one more day in February or maybe I will just have to arrange that myself and pretend I have one more day. Shoot....what do you think people who are born on February 29th do??? That could really mess your brain up! Anyway, here I sit on February 26th, strategizing for today and tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. Hmmmmmm............maybe wrapping up this non-sensical attempt to blog intelligently or at least interestingly enough to keep you reading this silliness would be a good start! Yea......that's the ticket!

Before I leave though I want to share this most awesome thought I just had..........
My oldest child (boy) turned 17 years old yesterday and he/we celebrated by landing his first "payroll" job as a dishwasher!! Ahhhhh.........remember your first paying job??? It is kinda like this whole BFL thing. You just do it and it is altogether exciting and a job you wish away for bigger and better things. Then all of a sudden its a year later and your BFL body and workouts are taking on a life of their own and the best part.........you are working smarter now!! My son will soon be there in the part-time "working" world. A year from now he will wonder from whence he came. He will laugh at how green he was in that first job and how it totally sucked to be a bottom-feeding dishwasher in the restaurant world. But he will look at all he has learned and how he has grown. He will see his first car and think, "Yeah, baby!" He will have graduated to a better pay and better grunt work somewhere else. He will be heading for graduation and have "money in the bank" (if he stops dinging up my cars!) He has the world by the tail and the BEST IS YET TO COME!!!

Wait a minute...........was I just typing about my life??? That IS how I feel about my life, as I wrap up my F-list and begin to create my M-list! What an AWESOME feeling to be able to stare life down, right in the face and LIVE DELIBERATELY!! In fact (don't tell my son this), I am in even a better place, because just like when I started my C2 "Carry the Torch" DO-OVER Challenge (God Bless ya, Julie!) I have knowledge on my side this time! Ain't nothing going to stop me from "writing my name in the water", "cutting broad swaths" and "building castles in the air", because now I have the knowledge to lay the necessary foundations under those castles and chase those elusive dreams once and for all! Ahhhhhhhhh.............the good life....living deliberately........and............the best part.......it doesn't matter what age you find yourself...REACH FOR IT....GRASP IT....ATTAIN IT!!!

Oh and don't forget.........LIFE IS FOR A GRADE....DON'T FAIL!!!

BIG BULL officially bloggin'

P.S.............What's on your M-List???