rolls eyes
I figured out what was causing the spacing at the top of my blog here... Turns out if you have less than seven days of entries on the main page it will try to center what is there according to the length of the sidebar to the left, and according to the length of your posts in the body. Kind of quirky if you ask me, but that's what the issue was. So, in order to get rid of that I had to change my configuration to display seven days instead of four. (shrugs) Oh well.