Happy :)

   I am happy I got to hang out with this beautiful dog during my two week break from school. 

   Being back in Maine is good too, though. The semester is almost over. I am finishing up a final design project that will be turned in on January 31. It is the 11.15 meter sailboat. I designed everything from the machinery arrangement, interior layout, sail and rigging plan, and so on. It has been a lot of fun. I guess the only complaint I have is that they gave us the shell of the boat from the beginning. The exterior style and shape of the boat was predetermined. I look forward to future projects later in the year where I get to decide on the exterior styling of the yacht. This brings up another point... We only learned about sailboat design for the first semester. During the second semester we get to learn about power boats. I am much more interested in designing powerboats, so I am excited to start. 

   I tried another new recipe this weekend. Chicken pesto pasta. But I didn't make the pesto sauce myself... I didn't even mince garlic... I used a garlic paste instead. It was still good though! Really good. I especially liked the crushed red pepper part because I like spicy food. It was a very easy recipe so I didn't mess it up... Garlic, crushed red pepper, sun-dried tomatoes, chicken, noodles, and pesto. 

   I follow "Earth Pics" on Twitter. It just posts cool pictures of places around the world... cool vacation destinations... stuff like that. It recently posted a picture of people swimming in Greece. Look at how similar this picture is to a picture of ME swimming in Cinque Terre, Italy.

Random people in Greece

Paige Mitchell in Italy

   I am having a fish problem. Poor Rocco II might have to be renamed to Sammi II... Because he has a bad tail like Sammi. But the fish might be on its way to the toilet any day now, so naming him Sammi would make me sad. So his new name is Nemo II. He had a hard time adjusting to the new tank water I gave them. He got sick and was basically immobile... so the other two fish ate his tail. But he is feeling much better and has been swimming around the tank as happy as can be for the past week now.. with no tail. See... look at it compared to the other two fish tails:

   I got a Wacom Cintiq for Christmas and am having a lot of fun playing on it! I haven't created any masterpieces YET. But I will be sure to post them as I complete them.

   This reminds me that I finished Kelly's drawing of Tom Hanks. The drawing is Tom  Hanks in character in the movie Cloud Atlas. I am very happy with the results and I think Kelly was too. Here is the drawing:

   The weather had been so nice in Kennebunkport since I got back from vacation. It had been above freezing every day and even reach the 50's a few of the days. Almost all of the snow was melted and the golf course was even green! But then this happened on Saturday... Oh well. It is pretty:

   And for the most EXCITING news: I have had some success in the job search lately! I had a great interview with a company in Florida and am flying down there to visit their office in a couple weeks. I hope to have more to say about that later. :)



   Thats all for now... and I just thought this picture was funny: