That is fantastic!!! Congrats on your progress!!

I'm a big proponent of recording yourself. It allows you to evaluate your playing outside of the moment and it gives you a running record of your progress. Wait until a year from now and you listen back to things you are doing today...you will be amazed at the progress!!

Something to consider is using backing tracks or collaborating with other musicians for other tracks. For jam tracks, youtube is a great resource and you can easily convert them to mp3 files that you can put into your recording software. For songs you'd like to cover, there is a website called karaoke-version.com. You can purchase tracks with the guitar parts muted and record them yourself. With a "custom version" you can mute ANY tracks, so if you want to record your own vocals also, you can do so.

It's great fun.

Happy playing and recording!!