Just don't get it!

So I cannot seem to get my head wrapped around this whole blogging thing.  I think I want to do this, but this monkey still cannot seem to pull her head out of her monkey butt and get the editing component of how I want this damn thing to look!  I have an idea, then I play around with it.  That doesn't work. So then I play around with it some more.  I end up deleting things off the template and then can't retrieve them. Ack! So frustrating and confusing for me, that I just want to fling my poo at it!  But I digress.  Let's try this again.