Yeaaaah, brew it up! I'd say go for whatever hops you want to, it's all in fun anyway like you said and there is no rush at all, the beers will just get better with time; man I love this hobby. It would be cool when we trade to get a couple that I don't know which is which as well, though I plan on marking a couple of mine on the bottom of the bottle and having swmbo mix them up when I go to try so it's a blind test.
I was laughing earlier, I've got these 4 gallons of ipa - iipa going, 3 more gallons of ipa, 3 gallons of lager, 4 gallons of apfelwein, 1 gallon of scrumpy cider, and 7 24packs and a case of bombers of other homebrews already bottled.. I've got beer coming out of my freaking ears right now lol. Bring it, zombies apocolypse!