It has been awhile since I last posted an update to the "Extreme Makeover-Mitchell Edition.  I guess there are two personality types: the "talkers" and the "doers". I haven’t been doing too much talkin' lately as I’ve been busy with the doin'.

I have never kept track of how long it really takes to complete a project. For this makeover project, I decided to keep a journal, recording all the steps, tasks and daily progress. Projects always take longer than planned. This is a fundamental law of projects. Many times projects become bigger during the construction phase due to unforseen factors or design changes. I heard this phenomenon is called ‘scope creep’.

To refresh my memory for my blog entry, I checked my journal this morning to review the recent accomplishments and the man-hours put into the project since I last posted an update. There has been significant progress during the last month.  It was satisfying to review all the steps on the "to do" lists that had been completed. While keeping my head down working in the trenches, I seemed to have lost sight of the achievements and lost track of the time spent on the remodeling project. My journal revealed that I had spent 21 straight 8+ hour days working on this labor of love.

I won’t list details of the individual tasks along the way, but I will say the entire master suite is becoming transformed into our interpretation of  "Traditional Northwest Zen". It will have the look and feel of brand new construction.

I am very excited about the project and the progress. Coming from a Norwegian, that's saying a lot!