WACOM!
If you hadn't guessed from the contents of that handwritten note, I just bought myself a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet and I'm very happy with it! It's lovely. I might never use a mouse again (well, on my own computer, that is). Basically, this thing lets you draw to your computer using a pen and tablet. It's an input like a mouse, but much more precise. Looooooove!
Also, I forgot to publicize this to LJ land, but if you want to follow my art/design/prettythings blog, you may now do so from the comfort of your LJ friends lists! You can add openedeyes_rss to your friends lists if you'd like. No pressure or anything - no one owns LJ RSS feeds so I have no idea who's subscribing or not. :D Thanks to giada for making the account for me since non-paid users can't do so themselves.