scraped knuckles

I spent this afternoon scrubbing 30 year old wallpaper paste off the kitchen walls to prepare for painting. This better be worth it. My knuckles hurt really bad. Scraping them on the texture of the walls didn't help. After 9 years I am finally making this house feel a little more like home. Maybe if I get it the way I want it, we will find a place of our own. That would be about right.