Sounds like a plan. :)

One thing I'd definitely suggest over the long term is to get yourself a decent book (or find a website) on guitar setup. You can take it in and have somebody else do it, but eventually you'll need to do it yourself because only you can tell for sure how you prefer the guitar to be set up and what gauge of strings you prefer. Plus, if you want to keep your guitar in top playing form, you should be changing the strings ever couple of months at the very least.
If you get to the point where you're playing professionally, you'll be changing strings on a nightly basis.

Plus there's a kind of feeling you get when you set up your own guitar. Like a combination of pride and satisfaction. You clean it up, put a little lemon oil on the fretboard... go wash your hands, change the strings, wash your hands again, tune it up and stretch the strings so they stay in tune. Put the guitar aside for 1/2 an hour and kinda think about it a bit.
Then you go pick it up and play your first song on the new strings and really step up your performance because you don't want to disappoint your new strings with bad playing. (?)

It's like yoga or meditation or something.
Or maybe I'm just weird.