diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1ced6d0..11b3dd4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@
 [submodule "fonts"]
 	path = fonts
 	url = https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
+[submodule "oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k"]
+	path = oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k
+	url = https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git
diff --git a/install.conf.yaml b/install.conf.yaml
index 170d2e1..9ab7af4 100644
--- a/install.conf.yaml
+++ b/install.conf.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,18 @@
 - create:
         - ~/oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins
         - ~/oh-my-zsh/custom/themes
-        - ~/
 - shell:
         - [sh pre-install.sh, Running setup script]
         - [git submodule update --init --recursive, Installing submodules]
         - [sh fonts/install.sh, Installing Powerline fonts]
-        
+#at this point, we should have clean folders set up for oh my zsh and should have fonts installed 
+#now we need to start creating links and then perform any other installation stuff
+
+- link: 
+        - ~/.dotfiles: ''
+        - ~/.vim: vim/
+        - ~/.vimrc: vimrc
+        - ~/.zshrc:
+                force: true
+                path: zshrc
+        - ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme: oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh_theme
diff --git a/oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k b/oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..f07d7ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f07d7baea36010bfa74708844d404517ea6ac473
diff --git a/.vimrc b/vimrc
similarity index 100%
rename from .vimrc
rename to vimrc
diff --git a/.zshrc b/zshrc
similarity index 99%
rename from .zshrc
rename to zshrc
index 144e8b9..a37100a 100644
--- a/.zshrc
+++ b/zshrc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"
 # See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
 
 #list of good themes [amuse,aussiegeek,passion]
-ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
+ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k"
 
 # Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
 # Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load