i’m not assiduously into planners (at least, not as serious about it as pseudoshrink is heheh). really. i just like to look at them from time to time, especially during the first three months of the year. after that, they tend to fade away from my memory. also, i’m not the type to collect stickers just to get my hands on one (i did buy a couple online in the past though).

and yet, this time i actually went through the whole rigmarole of collecting those darn Starbucks stickers — after i had 4 of those suckers pasted on my stub, i figured i might as well finish the whole thing. i got my last sticker by jan. 3, and i thought it was just a simple matter of marching into any Starbucks branch, then presenting the stub (by the time my stub was filled, it looked like it had been stomped on by a herd of goats), and presto i can walk out of Starbucks with one of those planners on my hands.

hah. i suppose i ought to have known there would be about a couple of million coffee drinkers out there who would want to have their own Starbucks 2010 planner. after going through 4 Starbucks branches — only to be told that they have run out of stock — i was ready to call it quits.

pseudoshrink, of course, was ready to help, but i guess i’m just plain out of luck. today, though, i decided to have one last try. and what do you know, i actually managed to redeem one without any trouble. so, was the hassle worth it? well, i’m not sure yet. (you can ask me again 3 months from now, though.) for now, i just like looking at it.