All these FIRSTS must be a sign OR 12 for 12

What a unique day January 1, 2012 is! It's the first day of the WEEK, MONTH, AND YEAR! I take this as a sign. And after my paucity of Bucket List cross offs last year, I figure I need to take matters into my own hands and pick specific things off the list to complete for the year.

First off I need to Organize my bucket list! (which is actually on my bucket list but I won't count it for my 12 :) )

1. Books to Read (from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die):

1. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
2. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
4. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
5. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
6. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
7. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut  01/03/12
8. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
9. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 1-13-12
10. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk 01/08/12
11. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
12. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
13. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
14. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
15. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
16. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
17. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
18. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
19. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
20. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel 01/05/12
21. Beloved – Toni Morrison
22. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
23. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
24. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
25. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
26. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
This is just over 2 a month. Some of which won't be a problem, but Brothers Karamazov has been partially read for years so this will take commitment.

2. Movies to Watch (from the list of movies that won Best Picture):

1. 1959 - "Ben-Hur"
2. 1952 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
3. 1951 - "An American in Paris"
4. 1969 - "Midnight Cowboy"
5. 1971 - "The French Connection" 01/12/12
6. 2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
7. 2010 - "The King's Speech"
8. 1985 - "Out of Africa"
9. 1984 - "Amadeus"
10. 1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
11. 1978 - "The Deer Hunter"
12. 1949 - "All the Kings Men"
This works out to one a month. Hurt Locker is on my TIVO so it's my January choice.

3. Ride a camel (Morocco)
4. Get hennaed (Morocco)
5. Dance on the bar at Coyote Ugly (At NFR 2012)
6. Drink Absinthe in Paris
7. See a solar eclipse (an annular solar eclipse will occur in northwest Texas that we are planning to see)

8. Plant a vegetable garden and learn how to can using a pressure cooker
9. Donate platelets once a month for a year.

10. Spend 3 months getting my body in optimum shape STARTING TODAY!
11. Rollerblade
12. Learn Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance