Also, Cinnamon Girl - by the way, get used to dropped-D tuning and learn some Neil Young stuff 
- it’s important to just keep doing it until something clicks. You can see week-to-week improvement sometimes, especially early on, but once in a while you surprise yourself and wonder “where did THAT come from?” The brain connects to the guitar and your conscious mind steps aside. If you keep playing long enough to have one of those, I suspect you won’t take another break from the guitar. I’ve had a handful of those in eight years of playing, and one was last night. I’ve been playing without a pick for the last few months in imitation of a favorite guitarist, and I guess I finally got three fingers working together at top speed. Probably would have made for a funny picture; my fingers were flying around and I was staring at my hands with my mouth open.
I have to advise keeping enough spare sets of strings around. I haven’t broken one in ages, but it’s a long walk to the music store, so sometimes when my last strings are too gross and flat to use, I’ll go a week or more without playing. It’s no fun, and your fingers get cabin fever. So make sure you’re stocked up.
