Why I do this: going public?

Why do I blog? It started simply enough, I wanted to chronicle our adoption journey. I had started a long-hand journal, at the suggestion of our SW. But after a while, I didn't like the format of just writing open letters to Sam, and I certainly didn't like the long-hand writing. At the same time, I had joined an on-line "support group" of sorts for families in my adoption agency's ETH program. Many of the families had blogs so I started reading them and thought "I could do this." I thought it would be easier to invite friends and family members to view a blog than to send an email update about the adoption once a month.
So -- I started a blog. I found blogging to be very cathartic, very healing. There is a lot of pain and depression involved in infertility and international adoption, and I could move through those emotions in a safe environment. I loved to have friends comment on my posts. I loved to add pictures and keep an ongoing dialog. I loved that I didn't have to always blog about the baby, that I could blog about whatever I wanted to.
But then, some people at work (I still don't know how they got the address) made some negative comments and it was suggested I go private so as not to ruffle feathers. I HATED that. It wasn't fair. It was MY blog and I should be able to say whatever I wanted without fear that some secretary at work would report to a partner I just posted a blog entry at 3:47 pm while I should have been working. I mean, seriously - -get your own life instead of observing and then reporting on mine!
But I went private. Now, I must say that going private has also been very freeing. I never would have talked about Gregg's unemployment on a public blog. At least I don't think I would have. That being said, I have also seen my burgeoning blog as a PSA for international adoption. I thought it was really cool that someone could google Ethiopian adoption and could find my blog. Now, I realize it would be about item 12943 on any search engine, but still...it's the priciple of the thing, right?
Now that I am getting more free and writing more often, I want to go public again. I hate that my friends have to specifically click on my blog to find updates, as opposed to using a google blog ticker. I hate that others cannot find my blog from other blog favorites.
So the question is -- how do I go back public. The answer, I believe, is to get my own blog page. Not on blogger, but something like www.3dezuttis.com. I have a friend who is a computer geek and could do this for me, while incorporated my blog entries-to-date so I don't loose any data.
I'm also going to use Blurb to have my blog edited and "published" into a book every 6 months or so. I like the thought of a concrete book to page through.
Of course, before I do that, my mom says I have to go through each post and do spell check. I know, my spelling is atrocious! What can I say?, I am a child of spellcheck, not dictionaries.