Shopsins' Five Year Diary, and my addiction to stationery

I saw this five year diary at the MoMA Design Store in Soho.  It's designed by Tamara Shopsin (of Shopsins General Store, and daughter of the owner of the famed Shopsins food joint in the Essex Street Market) in collaboration with The Ice Plant.  I have a weird addiction to stationery; I browse stationery stores like people browse clothing or shoe stores.  I can even be a little elitist with stationery.  If I see someone with a Moleskine I think, What a rookie.  (That's not to say I don't own more Moleskine notebooks, in various colors and sizes, than I know what to do with). 

Perhaps my addiction to stationery has to do with the potential symbolized by an empty notebook and a blank page.  Buying a new notebook is like embarking on a new adventure, filling the pages with your own content, until you end up with a little microcosm of yourself in book form.

Anyways, when I saw this diary at the MoMA store, I forced myself to walk away from the display.  I told myself I didn't need to buy any more notebooks, and besides, I had already gotten a 2010 planner, what was the point in getting this.  But in the end I couldn't resist.  My rationalization: my planner is for things I will do, and this will be for recording my concrete accomplishments on a day to day basis; plus I won't need to buy another one for five years.  The real reasons: I couldn't get over the soft feel of the cloth cover, and the handsome look of the red and white lines.  The diaries also come in blue and black, and I wanted to buy copies in all three colors, but there are limits to my rationalizing...