What to do with all this stuff?

Wow, I never realized how much stuff there is for blogging out there. I'm still figuring things out. All this is sort of a new language for me to learn, with the html's, and the dashboard, and the layouts and settings..... I promise all my posts won't be about blogging, I am just overwhelmed by how much there is to choose from. Jeez, if you do a search for blogging, so many things come up, you could get lost in all the links from one page to another! It's crazy. And I was still using pen and paper! What the heck was I thinking?