Guitar experiment - quarterly report

It's been way more than 3 months since I got my guitar. Here is my experience so far:

By the end of the my first week I felt pain; physical pain. My finger tips hurt, my wrists were all messed up and it hurt when I did did this*.

To play chords you put your fingers in a weird position that feels totally unnatural; press down hard but don't muffle any other strings. I never realized my fingers were so in the way of each other! Remember random letters assigned to each string (two of which are E). My YouTube tutor tells me that if it doesn't sound good then one of three things is happening: you're not playing it correctly, your guitar is out of tune, or your guitar is broken. Hmmm. I bought a tuner. I broke two 2 G-strings trying to tune it (there's an inherent joke there but it's low-brow and not worth your time).

Progress -- minimal but not giving up.

*This (as demonstrated by Penny)