RSS?

I'm a little bit slow on the uptake when it comes to web technology, I am embarrassed to admit. Despite this fantastical blog, I know, I know, how could I not be super web tech savvy? Ok well here's my question. I want to use an RSS reader to view all my favorite blogs. To be honest these days I just click on my blog page and then go through all of the links. This is such a pain because a lot of the times the blogs haven't been updated. Look, I'm not even supposed to be blog reading at work so we've got to make it as streamlined as possible. So my question to you dear blog readers is this, how do you read your favorite blogs? Do you RSS feed? I try to RSS feed and it automatically tries to add to my yahoo and guess what, I don't want to use yahoo! I have google reader but I find that it sucks too. A little advice would be much appreciated.