Making a layout is harder than I thought

I'm the one in-charge of the senior scouts blog layout. Trying to make a layout for it is not really as easy as I thought it would be. And what more, my sister is using the laptop everyday. What does that have to do with my problem? I have a drawing program over there, namely, Paint.NET. It's a free digital imaging program. I can't use it on my Windows 2000 because it's not compatible.

Usually it'll take me a couple of weeks to whip up an idea. Take my blog as an example. My blog did not start out with the Billy's Rail Transit thingie. It was quite a while before the new naming convention for the links to kick into action. And the tabbed bar? It only started a few weeks ago. I'm trying to say, the way I change the layout of a blog is by "slow evolution". Sorry, I'm not sure what I'm talking about here. Oh gosh, I lost my point.

Anyway, trying to make a new design for a blog in such short period of time is kinda stressful. I always thought it would be fun. Hmm... what should I do????