[0-20 points] layout:
First Glance = I love it! It’s delightfully easy on the eyes, muted tones (which I like quite a bit - jarring colors in diaries hurt my poor widdle eyes) of grey and brown. Maybe that’s blue, not grey, but it totally looks like grey to me, so whatever.

Your font choice is lovely.

The asymmetry of the little box right next to the big entry box makes things feel a little lopsided, but it’s not too bad. I’m not worried about it.

I’m looking at your archives page and am a little intimidated. The same diary since 2001, holy cow! I don’t really get why it says “pink-design” in the upper right hand corner - is that the person who designed the website? If it is, I wish you would put that as a link in your little linky box on the left. That’s not a pet peeve of mine but I do wish that your links box was the same on your archives page as on your main page, because now I have to go back to look through all of your links. Anyway. You get -

19 points

[0-10 points] link back:
Grrl, you rock like you was several layers of sediment compacted over several centuries by pressure from other layers of sediment and later sheared off on one side by a glacier to reveal several layers of rock, which is what you do - rock. Our link is right there in your profile layout on every single page and that is awesome. Full points.
10 points

[-10-25 points] Grammar and spelling: Well, you don’t capitalize much of anything. Hopefully that will improve as time goes on. The shift key is no more than a few inches away, homie! Hit it and quit it! Otherwise it is not too bad.

10 points

[0-100 points] content:

SOOO I am not going to start all the way back in the day, because I don’t want to hold you responsible for way-back-when mistakes, if there are some. If I like your stuff enough then I might go back and read them just for fun, but you won’t get reviewed based on them. I will do half within the past year, and half within the year before this one.
Let’s hop right in, shall we?
Entry numba one! From mid-2007.
I’m gathering from the title that you were intoxicated when you wrote this one, but I’m still taking off a point for the no-capitalization thing. I am so totally exactly like this, and I haven’t had this kind of “fuck my perfectionist tendencies” epiphany yet, I’m jealous. It’s a short entry, phooey. I hope there aren’t too many that I run into that are so short because I like reading for a long long time.

You don’t have very much from 2007 but that’s okay.

Numba Two!
Oh mang. I totally feel ya on the coochie problems, way to be straight forward. I think it’s cute that you actually say “menses”. Same thing with the rawness, that always sucks. UTI OUCH. You’re very open, congratulations. Atta girl! I’m mighty proud of you. I am a little worried by the amount of drinking you talk about, but maybe that’s just because I’m, you know, poor and a lightweight. I buy one bottle of wine and it lasts me two weeks, you can blow $187 in one night. Maybe cocktails are more expensive than I think they are? I don’t know.
Also, kudos on the snooping. Yeah, you’re a terrible person etc. but this is JUICY and I would do the exact same thing in your position. I haven’t snooped in a lot of months and don’t worry, Amanda, I’ve never snooped in yours; but I dig your nosiness. Rad.

So, this entry more than made up for the last one. I am liking you in a not-sure-if-I-would-want-to-know-you-personally-but-would-love-to-know-you-internetally way.

Okay, that was great. Let’s move on.

Moving into 2008!
I’m not following most of this, which is okay, I guess. Still no capitals, bummer. I don’t know, this one is a little dull, but you sound like a good mom, so kudos for that!

Let’s read something else!
Hurrah, you started using the shift key! Hurrah!
So, the quitting smoking thing. I don’t know if this works and I wouldn’t try it if I were you because it sounds really actually dangerous to me, but I heard about this method. You smoke your last cigarette really, really, really fast, all the way to the filter. Then you drop the butt into a glass of lukewarm water, and you drink the water. From what I hear, every time you see a cigarette, you remember that experience and you can’t smoke anymore. It’s too gross. But seriously, I don’t know if that would kill you or something, because, you know. Drinking nicotine is bad for you and stuff.
Fifteen-mole-man will forever live in infamy. The worst part is that a freaking commercial for Red Robin’s Strawberry Freckled Lemonade and now all I can think about is drinking molenade. Eww.

Aww, man, I’m starting to get Review Fatigue. Last one.
Wow, I’m awesome! Remember that time when I was like, I’m worried about how much you drink? And then it’s the future and you’re seeking treatment.
V. Brave. I’m glad to hear it, for serious.
Ooh, I hate it when people don’t introduce me. That’s sooo irritating. You should slap the guy around a bit. I mean, you call him Dickhead, it’s pretty evident that he is indeed a dickhead, you ought to let him know that he is a dickhead.
I’m not totally clear on if you and your man are non-monogamous, or if you are cheating on him. Or rather, trying to cheat on him. Either way, this is interesting shit.

So, to sum things up: I’m not planning to go back and read you from the top, but you have a decent writing style and an interesting life. This is an above mid-grade diary, but it’s not quite sirloin.
85 points.

[0-50 points] anything else: I don’t get why in the heck you have a private link on your sidebar. That’s irritating >=[ But to cancel that out, you have your Myspace linked, AND your Youtube is linked, so you’re alright.
30 Points

159/200 points total. Not too shabby, kiddo.