My advice would be to start with a morph because if you start with a normal, and you are on here a lot looking at people posting all of their beautiful snakes, you will want one. There are some fairly inexpensive single gene morphs, like butters, or pinstripes etc. Unless of course you prefer the look of normals, then by all means save yourself a few bucks Also this might be a moot point since you already have a corn, and are buying feeders, but don't waste your money buying feeders from those big pet stores, try to find someone local with better prices. Oh and start with rats, or if it's on mice, start with those but as soon as it's feeding reliably, make the switch to suitably sized rats.

I'm actually really new to this too (I've had her for 3-4 weeks), but I'm just loving my normal girl, I hold her for about an hour a night (while I watch TV), and not so much for her benefit, but just because I love holding her; she's so calm, but still inquisitive, and not boring.