Despite that hiccup (which makes whatever I play not sound great) I went ahead and started working on trying to learn the different chords. The biggest difficulty I was having was with chord progressions and transitions, particularly with finger placement. I could play the chords one at a time, but when switching from one to another I had to try and figure out what might be the most comfortable and efficient finger placement.
It was also difficult to just listen to chords and know if they sounded right without having them be in the context of a song so I soon found myself looking for simple songs that I know the tunes to. Even then just trying to read tabs were difficult without knowing what the specific ukulele strumming patterns were. I soon found myself taking Rik's advice from a comment on my last post and went on youtube and found a tutorial for Vance Joy's song "Rip Tide." This is a simple 4 chord song (majority of the song is only playing three of the chords) that I hope will at least get me some confidence built up.
I would post a video clip here, but while I'm playing the chords correctly, the tuning issue isn't helping me out in the way it is sounding. Maybe next week. Talk about starting off with failure right out the gate! Until then I will be strumming away this week practicing the chords, transitions, and Vance Joy song to try and get the strings to stretch properly to keep a tune.