So, just a little update, I am at $200 thanks to you guys, and my parents are going to take me to get the credit card today and that way I can pay that up front and pay off the rest of the $150 in installments, which will be way easier. This was what I had to use with the mouse in the meantime. My old pen was still somehow working with the tablet, but the perfectly brand new one would not register, and I stayed on the phone with Wacom for hours to find a solution.
So that's been fun. But in a way, I'm glad it happened because it inspired me to try harder and be less lazy about my art and have to come up with ways to get around certain bad habits I have. I am so excited to get something that I don't have to install a thousand times and that will actually stay working. Thanks for all the hard work from these talented artists, and thanks to all of you for being such a support, I would've never made it without you. I'm going to try and continue saving the rest of the $150, we're getting more hours at work because of the back to school season, and from there will be a barrage of holidays that will hopefully pay me enough to afford these extra things I need. Just a little at a time, it's all coming together!