I'm off to get the stripper!

Okay, before I forget, you have to check out the banner at the top of this page. Go on, look, I'll wait. HOW COOL IS THAT? Our personal web guru stuck that up there for us. Every time you refresh the page it says something different about us. (Yeah, we're pretty into ourselves, huh?)
Anyway, So my parents came up to watch the O's get their shorts handed to them by the Red Sox. Nice. Either way we weren't really all that concerned- we're Phillies fans. But we still got to eat overpriced hot dogs, drink the most expensive cheap beer I've ever tasted, and throw peanut shells on the ground. = SUCCESS.
Today I am taking on the stupid coffee table. To catch you up, I own this adorable little coffee table someone gave me. The only thing is, they painted it white. Like UGLY white. So now that Rob and I are getting our own house, every stick of furniture becomes crucial to saving money. We figured, if we just strip the paint off of it and stain it, it would be gorgeous again. So we began this little project one Sunday afternoon 5 WEEKS AGO. That stupid table has 4 coats of paint on it and the last two are oil based. At this point we have gone through at least 6 pairs of gloves - the chemicals break them down- two packages of steel wool, we had to buy a sander, and 7 cans of paint stripper. (At first it was really funny to us to say to eachother "Honey, I'm going to go get the stripper!"..it's old now). Not only has this project now cost us almost $200.00, but I think we've had to use so much stripper that we're actually beginning to ruin the wood. I swear, before we're done with this there's gonna be a fire somewhere...