Good for you!!! Yes, a great story!
I have a strat and a les paul myself. You'll be able to cover a great range of tones with those two guitars! They are both great guitars!
This site is a gamechanger for guitar lessons. I really wanted to take lessons again since I'm primarily self taught and took lessons for only a year. With a full time job and 3 young kids, that just wasn't going to happen. Then I found this site. Over the past year and a half my playing has improved tremendously thanks to this site. I've learned about 10 or so songs and I've learned to improvise in a way I only dreamed I'd be able to one day. I also gained enough confidence to get involved with a band.
Guess what I'm trying to say if you've come to the right place :-).