the most horrible, awful

im going to keep this brief for those of you that have sensitive stomachs ... the rats that previously ran this house had established our oven as their master bedroom. which i discovered after i tried to broil something. ugh, just thinking about it makes my stomach turn. after bribing sean to clean it out for me, and doing some rat poop shoveling myself, i went to buy a new oven on sunday. it's nothing glorious, but i absolutely adore it. it's most important quality: it's never had rats living in it. hooray!

nevermind, it is glorious - look how it glows!

the rest of the weekend was spent doing things that aren't too glamorous: hooking up a water heater and building a room for it, hooking up the washer and dryer, and cutting down a tree. speaking of, anyone have any suggests on how to cut the rest of this tree down? it's leaning pretty far over the house, and sean's kind of stuck on how to not have it go through our roof and/or windows.

the contractors are arriving this morning to start their work. hopefully by this time on friday, our house will no longer be crooked and have a kind of large crack running through the middle. ha!

here's a glimpse of what the middle of our floor looks like now. i don't know if you can tell, but it's pretty wonky. cheers to the paid workmen!