Oh man, smilingcat (maybe frowningcat now?), I feel your pain. When my DH and I were prepping our house to sell last year, we had a master list of all the different jobs we had to do. So many of them took WAY longer than we'd anticipated, especially painting (prep, cut-in, and especially trim...rolling is the only thing that goes fast!) It was all worth it in the end (house sold in 60 days!), but we were exhausted to the bone during that time.

I surely do wish you good luck. It's not easy doing this stuff ourselves, which is why so many people call in the pros. We knew we'd be losing money on our house so were not willing to spend the $$ to do that. Thus, we suffered. But it's only a distant memory now, and someday, your toils will be too. I promise!