Can't Seem To Design

I haven’t been able to really sit down and make designs and work a lot since I got my Mac Mini. I couldn’t figure it out. Then it hit me. The reason I feel so unconfortable while designing is the monitor. In the transition from my laptop to my Mac I had to go from an LCD monitor to a CRT monitor. On the CRT monitor I can’t see any of the pixels like I could before, and it’s very hard to measure everything and ensure that everything looks pixel-perfect. Does anyone have any tips? (Like how those of you with a CRT monitor get everything to work, resolution, etc.) And can anyone recommend a good and cheap LCD monitor?