My First Blahhg

Well I've spent a long, tedious morning trying to figure out this thing called a blog.  I think my problem is that the most important thing about a blog to me is the way it looks.  I've spent about two hours looking at custom templates and I think I'm finally happy with the way it looks; however the font is driving me crazy!  I spent forever trying to change the code to let me use a cute font and after all the direction reading and file saving it didn't even work.  Ugh!  I guess I need to take baby steps.