The first page of a diary...

A very good friend of mine never puts a mark on the first page of her journals. It's too much pressure - the first page is going to define the following pages, set a standard. It wouldn't due to have sloppy penmanship, a misspelled word, or not to mention a poem that you'd find so ridiculous in six months that you'd just want to burn the whole thing.

So she skips the first page.