popcorn ceiling = devil

I am pretty sure that popcorn ceiling will be the death of me! We have that ugly stuff throughout our whole house and we are in the process of taking it all down and putting up a nice fresh texture with some white paint.... Well first off, the stuff is a pain in the butt to get off the ceiling. I have used water to soak it and then a scraper to get it off, but it is very tiring and very hard to get off. Most of the time I wind up scraping off all the way to the paper underneath. Second it makes a complete mess. I try to put a tarp down before I do it, so that at least I can get most of it on the tarp vs the carpet, but it doesn't always work that way. Third, I have to patch those stupid spots that I went down to paper on with mud, which takes forever! Forth, Cleaning up the mess on the carpet it a pain in the butt as well, I think the last room we did I vacuumed a good dozen times before I was even slightly happy with the outcome. Finally, I feel like I got hit by a bus each time I take on ceilings. Having your arms above your head and using your muscles to scrape really hurts! Plus going up and down the ladder also hurts. So basically, whoever invented this stuff is the devil and popcorn ceiling is its offspring. That is all :)