I got a USB Tablet

Yup, a Genius “MousePen 8×6.” I played with it for an hour or so in Photoshop. My first thought was that I wasted my money — the pen and tablet didn’t change the fact that I’m a crappy artist — but after I got the hang of it I began to like it. Sure, I bought the cheapest one I could find, and it skips around a bit, but it was well worth the 50$ I paid for it on Amazon. I can trace things fairly well now, I can draw some nice looking stick figures, and maybe one day I’ll get around to learning how to draw.