Learning to Blog

With as many blogs as I have read, Ive honestly never made a blog of my own before. Of course for Dr. Carter's lawclass we used our law blog to post our cases. That's as close as I've come to making a blog. I had no idea that I was going to have so many choices with this project. It's actually a bit overwhelming. I have already spent over an hour just trying to figure out color combinations for all of the different layouts. And now I can't even figure out how to see my own blog, but as far as I know, my blog has a green background with leaves. I just now realized that i can do different colors which really excites me. What on earth does "monetize" mean?
One thing we talked about blogging about in class was why I chose public realtions. I must say, I will at some point this semester, on this very blog, explain my reasoning. I find it interesting that people can blog about just about anything. I feel so blessed to live in a time and in a country where I can say what I want about just about anything. I heard this week that Google is/is thinking about shutting down in China because of all of the restrictions put on the online searches there by the government. I believe I saw it in Monday or Tuesdays New York Times. Here is the/a similar article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/asia/13beijing.html?scp=1&sq=google%20china&st=cse .
I wish I could figure out how to find groups or other public relations students. If anyone happens to stumble upon this and knows how, please, post something.
As for me, good night and good luck.