Congrats!  I actually got started by a friend who had a couple bit coin, I got 0.01 BTC back when that was only worth about $1 US.  Then I got head-strong into it and have been having a blast ever since.  It only gets harder as difficulty increases, but it's still fun, and I think of it as "a science project".

Keep your GPU's and ASIC's to the grindstone, and you'll be having fun and making coin, crypto, virtual, and hopefully real...