first impressions
older.html: Pale yellow background, black box centred, archives centred in that.
entries: Don't really match archives. I'm starting with 030518_97.html

general aesthetics
Text is pale yellow, looks like Verdana at 13px. Good visibility on the black background.
0 points

layout
Ugh. I can only just, like, barely, call this a "layout". It has a tiny bit of structure, but that's it. There are three images across the top - a castle scene with lyrics by Sting, and two copies of a composite photo of the writer. (Why two? Ain't no reason I can see.) Then there's a centred section in which the main links and the entry appear. Links are centred, thankfully the entry isn't. And below that there's a zodiac graphic, a WeatherPixie, a diaryring and a link to the guestbook.
-2.5 points

user-friendliness
Somewhere between borderline and unfriendly. Hover cursor is a crosshair, hover effect is nonexistent, and all links are the same colour... plus the main links are grouped in such a way that a newbie might think there are only three links instead of seven. Yick. The only thing that's good is the scrollbar.
-2.5 points

navigation
Seven links above the entry, but grouped to look like three; back and forward navigation below the entry. The lack of any hover effect and the poor grouping of the main links is depressing.
-2.5 points

continuity
Fairly regular updates in May, with a few multiples but also some noticeable gaps. Only one June entry so far.
0 points

comprehension
What the heck is with the space immediately prior to the vast majority of the punctuation? It's not cute, and you don't even have the "excuse" of being a teen. It drags your writing way down. It makes your diary look even worse than it already does. And it's a shame, because you're basically coherent. Some quite ghastly punctuation (dashes where there should be commas, and vice versa), but otherwise coherent.
0 points

content
The deal is you're an adult, a parent of two, and you lost your husband recently. That is clear. Your diary is about your thoughts and feelings as a recently-widowed adult parent of two. There are some song lyrics, relating to your late husband. There is some proud-mother content. All of that is fine. It's coherent, and it's fine. But this is a niche diary - you're writing for your own benefit, to process your feelings and to find your new "identity"; it's good for you, but I don't know how much it's going to appeal to "the wider audience"... specially with that presentation (which sucks; sorry, but it does). Bonus points for doing the right thing by yourself and putting your thoughts online, but only average otherwise - because, frankly, your presentation makes it so damn hard to read.
0 points
5 bonus points

contact
Email and guestbook, both obvious.
5 points

link back
Couldn't find it anywhere.
-5 points

extras
imood in the template.
2.5 points

my comments

I realise you're trying to express yourself "just like everyone else" and that you have some significant pain in your past, and I don't want to trivialise that in any way, but if you want to be read and taken seriously, please catch up with the majority of the online journalling community and look like you care about your design. Bad presentation is bad presentation, full stop. Bad presentation makes it difficult to read and assimilate the words and it makes it nigh-on impossible to view the writer as a voice that deserves to be heard. Your "layout" is painful. Your abuse of native browser functionality (ie, your links) makes me want to get insanely drunk and howl at the moon. Your unnecessary spaces prior to punctuation (commas, periods and question marks in particular) remind me of my father, and that is never a good thing. Please be the intelligent person you believe yourself to be and do something about this. Good presentation goes a long way towards credibility.

Archive structure is nonexistent - everything going back to April 18 is on the one page.

scores
Total negative points: -12.5
Total positive points: 7.5
Number of neutral scores: 4
Final score: 45/100 plus 5 bonus points