Blogger fail - New hosting?

Since Blogger has been unavailable I've been evaluating other options for hosting my blog. Problem is, Google has us so spoiled with the Blogger interface that it'd be a huge learning curve to work with anything that was much more hands on without making huge time investments. Wordpress might be an option, but finding a proper host and getting a domain registered seems to be a hit or miss sort of deal. Anyone have any advice on hosting and domain registration?