Skreeter, you should be looking to play 10,000 plus hands at microlimits before moving up, and even then onlhy if your roll has grown sufficiently. I admire your attitude and your enthusaism, but you need to be absolutely sure you will have the vast reserves of patience and discipline poker unequivocally requires. Poker is played absolutely in the long term - a winnign hand or a winning session means NOTHING in the greater scheme of things.
Just now I played a couple of $25NL tables after nopt playing for 10 days. I lost $40, half of which was a hand where I had 88, hit middle set, managed to get all my oppo's money in by the river which gave him a set of queens and the pot. I patted myself on the back for my strong play and moved on to the next hand. If this doesn't make sense to you, you still have a lot to learn. If it does make sense to you, you still have a lot to learn. This is a game of experience - after 100,000 hands I consider myself a decent beginner.
Good luck with it all and remember, keep learning, listening, reading and experiencing and you might become a winning player. It may sounds patronising but it's god's honest truth.
