Not great

My friend Christie just started a blog and she introduced me to cutestblogonthebolck.blogspot.com. It has the cutest templates I've found. Well I couldn't figure out how to correctly paste the code, so my brilliant husband did it for me. To hurt my pride even more, it took him under 2 minutes to do so. However, neither of us can figure out how to make the rest of the blog settings go away. I have that weird boarder up top and the funky colors to my right. I mean I know how to change the colors, but I can't figure out how to make them just go away. Oh the world of blogging, it's such a challenge ha.