I was kind of hesitant to reply as it bumps the message to the top. So I'm just going to bunch all of the comments into this post.

Floyd Jane, I truly appreciate your comments and advice on all of my posts.

Music Student, I'm glad it was a pleasant surprise.

Gary Weder, Thanks for the mixing advice, but to be honest, I am operating blindly on the mixing portion. I have little knowledge on the fine tuning aspects. I'm definitely still learning. I appreciate your comments and advice.

Greg Johnson, Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment.

Scott C, thanks for listening and commenting both here and on the soundcloud site

Robertkc, Thanks for taking the time to listen. The two rooms comment is actually what I'm kind of stuck on. For some reason I kept redlining the monitors on RealBand. I had to stand about 4 feet away from the mic at times just to get the levels down into the yellow/green. Then I applied "gentle leveling" on the vocal track under compression. I'll figure it out.