Nice pictures. Thank you for sharing it with us.
The parts of my body I'm building most people would want to keep smaller

Actually, while I was starting on building my house I carried about 6000 rocks during the summer and made 2 thermal mass chimneys for the house. (Passive solar house). At the end of the summer my youngest son replied: "Look, Dad's got muscles." Apparently there was a bit of a size difference.
In case you didn't know thermal mass is not a hot time at the church. It is a way of storing heat in the house for the winter months. They store about 3 days of heat which is great in the north where it is cold and snowy most of the time.
I also like your "surroundings" in the pictures.
It looks like you and your friends are enjoying your music. Great!
I think you will do very well. Take your time and don't let these guys pressure you into settling down before you are ready.

- Brian