It was horribly irresponsible of me, but I spent all my pennies on a new camera. And I love it!
Took me forever to decide what camera to buy (not that many options in my price range), but I finally settled on a Nikon D3000. Read tons of reviews on it, and quite a few people complained about it, but I'd used one before in school and I remembered it as being pretty solid and a total blast to use, so I figured they were just whiners. (I know, I know. Why read the reviews if you're just going to ignore them?) And I was right! So far, anyway. It's fun and works as well as you can possibly expect for under $500.
Now I just need some free time to