craftgrrl | novice knitting question

I've been teaching myself to knit since last night. I've been dropping stitches all night, and I'm sick of having to restart. It occurred to me that there had to be a way to fix it, but the answers I'm getting on Google are confusing me since I don't really understand the jargon yet. I've seen advice stating "knit over to your dropped stitch" and I just have to stop paying attention because I can't figure out what that means.

So, craftgrrls, what does "knitting over" to a dropped stitch entail? Can anyone explain it in a way that won't make me get stabbity with my needles? Because I'm getting stabbity.

And after "knitting over," do you have any advice on how to fix it? I'm relatively useless at this without watching a video and then mucking about, so the written explanations make such little sense to me. Since LJers are a bit more down to Earth than your typical how-to article writers*, I figure at least a handful of people here can explain it well.

(*It takes a lot of cross-referencing various sources to understand exactly what something means. I don't think I'm really a natural knitter. :x.)

For the record, my dropped stitch keeps occurring with the very first/last stitch, if that makes any sense at all. So after I finish a row and switch the needles from my right hand to my left to begin making another row, I'll drop that VERY first one. Now whatever I'm knitting is in a shape that's like this: [__/