Domestic Geek

Current mood: motivated
I went to the "I-225/Colfax Avenue Interchange Environmental Assessment" open house last night to find out what is going on with all of that. Apparently, once the Fitzsimons Redevelopment is completed, there is supposed to be 110,00 trips in and out of the area daily. They expect it to be as busy as people trying to get in and out of downtown Denver.

Although they claim right now that this development will not impact the part of the mobile home park that I live in (as in I need to relocate), it will definitely impact it. They're putting I-225 access ramps at 17th Pl/18th Ave to get have better access to the Fitzsimons area. This will take out several mobile and regular homes there. They're claiming that they only need to relocate six. I don't see how, unless they're claiming all of the mobile homes as one since technically our landlord is the only one that owns it. It will also increase the noise where I live (I've already noticed it's worse than a year and a half ago that we moved here). They're beginning construction in August on a new street called Fitzsimons Parkway that will go around the east and north borders of Fitzsimmons to connect Potomac to 26th/Peoria. This is eventually supposed to connect up with Martin Luther King Blvd to have access to the Stapleton development area. Because of these two major projects, traffic will definitely increase around here. Not to mention the hassles during construction.

If the RTD Fastracks gets approved this November, they want to put a light rail station at Colfax/Potomac (stupid since they tore down the Park-n-Ride that was there not too long ago).

It's no secret that the city of Auroa is trying to eliminate mobile home parks. Anybody who thinks that the city is pouring all of this money into this area only to leave our park alone is dillusional.

Our park is already becoming a ghost town. I think the owner realizes that the days here are numbered. I'm sure someone, if not the city, will offer him a huge chunk of money for that land once the development is closer to completion.

The good news is that the interchange is in a study phase right now. If everything goes well (but when does it ever?), the construction wouldn't begin until sometime in 2008. That's another reason that it will suck around here. The new Children's Hospital is supposed to open in 2007. That gives me less than 4 years to get my shit together and get out of here. I was extremely worried that our landlord could give us the vacate notice at any time here. I think he only has to give us 30 days notice to get out if he ever sold it.

Anyway, click on the little map if you want to get a visual idea of what they're doing over there.

Current mood: annoyed
I'm so pissed at myself. I forgot to take grout into account when I measured under the window and now my little tile pattern doesn't fit. Of course, I don't figure this out until I'm to the window. Damn it! Not quite sure what to do about this. I guess I'll have to talk to Marcus about it this evening. I really wanted all the tiles up to surprise him when he got home. This really sucks!

Well, I finally managed to get the tiles for my backsplash cut. What a pain that was! Wise move going with the cheaper tiles to cut. I felt a little better about wasting $.12 ones instead of the $.70 ones. I might actually finish this before Christmas. Here's what the tile layout will be:



Here's where I've been cutting tiles:



Well, I guess I better get back to it.

When I get rich and am building my dream house, it is going to have one of these!

Man, I've been sooooo busy. Trying to deal with work, school, and a sick dog is kicking my ass. I've got two different classes going on right now: one is logo design and the other is goal attainment. I figured that meant that there wouldn't be as much to do in the design class. Ha! Same amount of work, just less class time to do it. I got a sum total of four hours of sleep Wednesday and Thursday nights. I didn't even go to work Friday morning. I did one store after school, but I told the manager at the other store that I was way too tired and had to go home. I think I dozed off more than a couple of times on the way home and found myself crossing lanes. I didn't even realize I was driving home on fumes. I realized I had no gas when I pulled into my driveway. STUPID! I'm lucky I didn't kill myself or someone else. So I ended up sleeping from 3 p.m. until 5:30 the next morning (when Skippy wanted to go out). I was still totally wiped out. After I got through with work, I came home and slept again. Marcus woke me up to go give Dave his birthday present, we had dinner, and I came home and slept some more.

I felt more awake today, but when I got home from work, I napped even more. Craziness. Marcus and I had a lunch today of Chipotle burritos and Starbucks Mocha Frappacinos. Yummy!!!! They were passing out free samples of a raspberry mocha frappacino. It was quite tasty.

Anyway, got to get to bed and start all over again. I have more to say, but no time. Hopefully, I'll have a few moments tomorrow.