Redesign help wanted

I'm terrible at designing websites (and at a lot of other things).  I took a shot at it in 1999 when I was in 9th grade, but I failed.  I designed anime fanpages back then, and I thought I was some hot shit.  I was all like "heh, this site has SIX different anime on it, whereas most just have DBZ.  I am ahead of my competition!"  Because I had that singular thought, I did not sleep with a woman until I was 20 and the culmination of about 8,000 showers washed the nerd off me. 

I don't know why I felt the need to share that, but the point is: I need a better blog.  This one is simple but boring.  It also lacks functionality.  My side-bars are all cramped and the lettering gets crunched up on certain resolutions.

The blog is in a large part just so that I can remember my routines, have a place to organize them, and get feedback from people who don't give a shit about how my blog looks.  At the same time, however, I want random people coming in to the blog to not have their aesthetic sensibilities offended and then not want to keep reading because it looks like some hack job.  I would do something like that, and I'm worried I'd lose out on potentially good commentary and insight because my blog just looks like some girl trying to get attention.

I don't have any money to pay for this with, but I promise I'll let you buy me drinks at a later date!  My ex was going to help me with a header image but then I went ahead and got dumped.  So if you know anyone who is decent at web design or photoshoppin', let me know.