finally this morning, i disconnected the gas pipe from my greased stove and dragged it out of the kitchen. it's sitting pretty right in the dining room. the sticky, yucky stove connected with a wacked out microwave is pretty outdated. i will get a lovely new stove and a much smaller microwave separately to give my kitchen a nice facelift. i will paint the kitchen with blue and white latex this weekend.

here's a photo of mr. stove on its enroute to a dump:

notice on how the microwave is almost the same size as the oven??? soo friggin' 80s!!! my mom still has that huge, old microwave sitting in her kitchen even with a built-in microwave installed already. guess she's not even ready to let the old one go.