No problem at all!
My husband thinks I'm crazy too. I got all excited this month when it finally started to look like I was going to ovulate. I usually ovulate around cycle day 19, but this month it was CD35 for crying out loud... YOU might understand why I'd be excited, but HE didn't. lol!
As for temping.... yes.
You're going to want to start from CD (cycle day) 1, which is the first day your period (Aunt Flo, AF) shows up. You pick one time in the morning before you even get out of bed to take your temperature, and stick with that time all month long if at all possible.
You'll see lower temperatures before ovulation (mine are usually 97.3°F - 97.7°F), then a spike the day of ovulation, and your temps should usually stay high until AF shows up again. But everyone's a little different and you might have spikes or drops all along the way.
I personally use Fertility Friend to track everything for me. I have downloaded the app to my phone so that I can enter my temperature right after I take it in the mornings. It helps you predict when you might be fertile and when to expect AF, based on all the other patterns and charts it has collected from women over the years.
It's pretty handy and has usually been very accurate for me, so I recommend it!
And I have had problems with digital tests giving me false positives, but some people swear by them. There are issues with the digitals -- like the dye running all over, or faulty test sticks -- that the machine doesn't always know how to handle. Once I got a positive from a faulty stick and then nothing from a stick that should have read positive.
I personally use Wondfos dip strips. I buy them from Amazon. They're WAY cheaper than the digitals, and in my opinion they're easy to use. You compare the test line to the control line. If the test is as dark as the control line, that's a positive. Anything that is not the same color/darkness is negative.
PLUS if you're a pee-on-a-stick (POAS) addict like me, or you need to test many times a day to catch a surge, or you have really long cycles and you don't know when you're going to ovulate, then they're way better than wasting a ton of expensive digitals.
I hope I'm being helpful and not too confusing! I highly recommend taking a look a the Fertility Friend site. You could start tracking your temps tomorrow morning just to get into the habit. It doesn't really HAVE to wait until the next cycle day. The more info FF has on your cycles, the better it can help you predict ovulation.