Victory!

So I didn't realize it but I have the trial at least for Illustrator on my computer... Decided to tinker around with it finally while watching the videos assigned for this week. It's especially helpful and I wish I had done that sooner. I have a way better understanding of how to use the pen tool, and I'm equally glad and successful at the other tools I have been shown and hopefully will be able to incorporate into this calendar project. It's also kind of nice to be able to use my tablet, because using the mouse is very tedious and I'm not used to mouse work. To share my excitement I drew this: 

yes, that's right. Be happy dog, be happy. For much excitement has happened within the past ten minutes of my experimenting!