I wanna blow it to pieces

I fear that planting saplings and letting them grow was a terribly false decision...filling the hollow parts with wood is kinda fun but getting rid of all those damn leaves without setting them on fire is really,really,really annoying.
I spent about 3 hours alone on the tree project today and it's like almost no visible progress at all >.<
Im seriously thinking of hunting creepers for Sulphur to craft some TNT,blowing as much of it to pieces as I can and then starting again with placing wood blocks on my own to create a nice, big, tall and solid trunk..
AAAArrrGGG It's just so frustrating. I'll stop for today before I do something stupid to all the hard work I did.
 -Okko

It's driving me nuts!

UPDATE:
- got rid of all the leaves
- now raising the thrunk high into the air
- I kinda want to build a tree house now
- I'm hungry