Wow, thanks so much for your response. I definitely feel better knowing others have done it. I would just need to get my hands on the appropriate tools to do it.
The think about the overflow tank is weird. My overflow tank is full. But RADIATOR is where I seem to be low on coolant, but I think its because it all went into the overflow tank. I'm very confused, because I basically overflowed my radiator, so much so, that it was coming out of the little hole in the overflow tank. But now the radiator is low. I'm going to have to check and make sure the t-stat is okay and maybe ill try to flush out the heater core. Those seem like easy enough tasks.
I'm going to try to sop up those pools of coolant and see if they come back. I feel like I have coolant everywhere, but I think its from the time I created a geyser by revving the engine with the rad cap off.