First weekend of HELL

You know how people say that, you need to experience renovating a house to know what it's like, because there is no way to explain it? Well I went through my first weekend and boy was it not the way I thought. Me and my wife had a master plan of what we would do and how long it should take. Caking the wall with compound should take no more than a couple days.... WRONG!! It took way more and it was hard as crap. Oh well that's what you learn about housework. After putting 2.5 tubs of compound on the wall, we realized we weren't the master plasterers we thought. It was so wavy and bumpy and not smooth at all. So we decided to start sanding it with sand paper. That was probably the hardest thing to do with no real show of improvement. We basically wasted a day just to make huge amounts of dust fly into our faces. But while we did that I also stripped more of the window and stair case. At least there was some improvement.