Hi all, thanks for the responses. I'll try and explain everything I did now:
6 gallons of water in the kettle on high.
Malt in mesh bag tied off for 30 minutes while it moved up to 170 degrees.
Once hit 170 (half hour), I removed the malt and turned off heat.
Added FULL bag of extract, as indicated on directions and had a friend continuously stir. Brought it back up to a rolling boil for an hour.
At some point here, I added my first thing of hops to a mesh bag.
When 20 minutes were left, I threw in the wort chiller to disinfect, along with that little white pill-looking thing (sorry, I forget the name lol).
10 minutes left, threw in the second thing of pellet hops, as indicated on directions.
5 minutes left, threw in the last thing of pellet hops in mesh bag.
Took it off the stove and immediately brought it to the sink where I ran the wort chiller immediately, and brought it down to 75-80 degrees.
Then I siphoned it to the Carboy and drew a sample.
Filled the test tube thingy up about 3/4 and spun the tester. It read "60" unless I completely was not looking at it correctly.
Sealed the carboy with the lid and stopper and the pressure release thingy (again, sorry lol).
Added the powder yeast to warm water for 15 minutes as indicated on directions, then tossed it in the carboy. One thing I noticed is some yeast is "clumped" together, floating at the top of the carboy. Do I need to worry?
It's now stored in a room that I'm hoping stays within the temp range indicated on the directions, but I can't be positive it will... that's all I remember.
I cleaned everything as indicated (by the way, can you let the items soak in the cleaner for a while, or do I need to dip it in and immediately remove it?).
I should have been more careful with the gravity reading, as far as understanding how to read it.. but I swore it read "60", which was a major disappointment to me because as I said, it's not what it said it would be on the directions (1.045-50). Does that mean that I fell in that range, or am I way off?
Last thing i want to mention is, when I put the pressure release thingy In (filled with sanitized water) some of it fell in the carboy... it just naturally leaked a little. Is that a problem?
I hope I made beer, but I donno
first time trying, so I won't get my hopes up.