More Illustrator...school girl!

I don't know why, but all of a sudden-I want to do everything in illustrator, and the more colorful the better~! It's weird, I had this awesome hatred of the program. I basically used to use it to create balloons in my comic, drop text onto christmas cards, or whatever! But now...now, I'm starting to love the freaky little vector program that likes straightening all your lines for you, and smoothing out all your curves. You throw something in there, trace it, convert it into cute little mini symbols that you can throw all over layers, create som pretty curvy lines...ah, no wonder graphic designers swear by it. Now, I want to master that sucker. And I shall try... until I get bored. So...here's a school girl.