Swollen Gorilla Fingers

So, today I finally decided to teach myself how to play the guitar. This may not seem like a big deal to most people, but for someone whose only musical background was playing the rugrats theme on the piano as a kid, it's pretty tough. I picked up my sister's old yamaha and googled "how to play the guitar" after a good 2 ours of reading tutorials and having the guitar strings dig into my soft, fragile artistic hands... I remembered why I quit when I was in middle school-

So I told that little whiney fat kid inside of me to shutup, and kept playing. I'm now 3 hours into learning how to play the guitar. Thanks to about.guitar.com I now fully understand how to play a "G, C, & D" chords. I have a long way to go though.. the sounds that come out of my guitar remind me of the velociraptors from jurassic park.