Nice! Yeah, I love to watch my reputation number increase! I just started using steemit at the start of September. I post once a day usually and comment a lot (especially starting out). Upvotes don't really count for a little while, but once they start counting, you have to watch your voting power because it only replaces 20% a day (10 full votes). It's all a learning curve but there are lots of posts about all of that out there. ;) It just takes a little while to figure out. Enjoy!