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The Blog: All Grown Up... With Nowhere To Go

First Impression: How very cheerful! I enjoy the colors very much!

Appearance: I love this template and I love the organization of it. (perhaps it is my foot fetish showing??) Everything is very well placed and there is a spot for everything. I would also like to mention that this template was designed by the blog owner and it is very impressive for reasons I will get into in a second.

Content: This blog is written by a young girl from India. It was started from what I can tell, when she was 17 and she is 18 now. As a result of her age, the entire blog comes off as being very sweet, very innocent and really quite charming. Lemonade writes about very common issues and occurrences in the life of someone her age, attending college and relationships. She is intelligent and unafraid to discuss anything and everything she is feeling.

As I was reading this, I was half amazed by her and half just really drawn to how down to earth she is. This blog is, essentially, EVERY 18 year old girl only Lemonade has no issue with exposing this mystery. It reminds me of all of the things I was going through at her age, only wasn't coming out and saying because I'm a guy and we just don't do that.

This is a "journal blog" although the posts aren't boring in a way that a lot of journal blogs can be. Lemonade is far more visual in what she is writing and, god, she is just a sweetheart. She loves her friends. She loves her family. She frets over people not thinking that she has anything valuable to say. In real life, she is more emotionally private and as a result, people have accused her of being detached and cold, but these people clearly are not taking the time to know her by reading her blog. Maybe they oughtta as they would then know the person that I met while reading... the young lady with a lot of emotion and a ton of depth and passion.

There is no major drama here and if there were, she does a very good job of coming off as though she handles it. In fact, the word I think of when I think of Lemonade is CAPABLE. I get the idea that this is one seriously ambitious woman and if there is something out there that she wants or wants to do, she is gonna go for it.

I want to mention something here although she did NOT request a review on this, but... she has another blog. Lemonade got a hankerin' to learn how to design templates and went ahead and taught herself how to in a very short period of time.

Her work is unbelievable for someone who just sat down one day and said, "I'm going to become a graphic designer.". In fact, the template that I love so much that this blog is written on was made by her. I found a link in her sidebar to her other blog where she showcases her templates and naturally I went to dig through it. Her designs are fantastic and it is a true testament to what kind of girl she is that she not only offers them up for free use but also designs custom templates for those who ask.

She JUST turned 18 and produces this kind of work. What an ambitious and "unafraid to work her fucking ass off to do something she loves" kind of girl.

What I love:Her innocence. Her lack of fear in expressing herself. The fact that she doesn't seem ashamed to come right out with the craziness that is life at 18. She is very open here and doesn't leave anything out.

What I hate: Hate would be a strong word here and I'm not even sure this is worth mentioning, but there were times when reading this blog (and again... it took me a while to do this review because I read the WHOLE thing)that I thought her writing was a tad immature. She has a tendency to "text message" write in her posts and sometimes as I was reading I could almost hear her accent. For example, she writes TAT instead of THAT and so you hear her nationality in her words. Which is not a bad thing at all but I thought I'd mention it because had I just read one or two posts, I would have thought she couldn't spell. I had to remember that she is a)from India, b)18 fucking ears old and c)writing a blog in english.So, if you keep it real here, there is no real reason why it should be any other way.

Suggestions: Forget about Sanjaya, Darlin... he sucks balls.

Final say: You're a doll. Real, honest, innocent and sweet as sugar. Great blog, FANTASTIC designs. You oughtta be charging for them :-) Keep up all this hard work and going after what you want and you could rule the world someday.

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