On blogs and blogging

I'm new to blogging in the sense that this is basically the first time I have 'done it'. I have always equated blogging with the idea of a diary. You know, a recording of your hopes, dreams and thoughts. Unfortunately the idea of writing a diary bores me tears.
One of my favourite books describes a young boys effort at 'diarising' It starts with the resolution to keep a diary, plateaus with a statement about 'being a better boy', descends into short descriptions of all meals and snacks eaten each day and ends with the resolution to not keep a diary anymore!
It seems very self indulgent to assume that ones musings would be of any interest to anyone but oneself! However it's a big world out there and by gosh it seems I do have something to say!
I have not found it easy to find blogs I am interested in. I have tried the two search engines recommended IE Technorati and Google. Like all search engines they work on the GIGO concept (garbage in, garbage out). Without very specific search terms I wasn't getting anywhere. Also like the rest of the web there seem to be a lot of 'abandoned' blogs. I guess people get sick of blogging as frequently as they get sick of maintaining any web resource.
My husband suggests visiting the companies or organisations who peddle what you are interested in to look for blog leads. I will be looking to add to this list but here are a few I found interesting

http://www.notquitenigella.com/ looks interesting and locally based too

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/ is always good for a laugh

http://blog.myspace.com/dianaholquist will be one I keep my eye on

Professionally

http://www.popgoesthelibrary.com/, http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/ and

http://kittenpiereads.blogspot.com/