By Natalie from Bloorb

I, Natalie, am a geek. And no, not a geek like I write code and buy the latest gadgets, but a geek like I get both small and big thrills from getting stuff DONE, from making stuff TIDIER, from feeling more FREE of things. While most would call it nesting (or even “being anal”), my husband calls it “geeking out” – something I do quite often.

In my house – while my husband would kill me for writing this – nothing thrills me more than ticking stuff off a to-do list. As a project manager by day, I know that the simplest stuff ALWAYS falls through the cracks if it’s not written down, so at home, I write it down! If it’s cluttered, piled, or just plain annoying – I write it down, and that means, eventually, it gets done! Because even if it doesn’t get done RIGHT AWAY, I can at least sleep easier knowing that it WILL eventually get done – because it was written down.

And while ticking stuff off the to-do list DOES have its perks, I’m not sure there’s a more fun item to tick off that list than re-organizing a space that previously wasn’t organized. Take for example, all that crap that was “shoved” underneath my bathroom counter. Well over the last few months, all that CRAP has been put into labelled bins and mini-tupperware-drawers beneath my counter – and good GRIEF is it easy to find stuff now! Just opening the vanity is like a little slice of geek heaven!

But I think my favourite “geek move”, the move that REALLY helps me shake free of the cobwebs and feel like a human being again, is the move where I book our weekends off. And what I mean by that is I’ll book our weekends “PLAN-FREE” – no socializing, no dinner plans, and not even a to-do list in sight. Sometimes the best plan is NO plan. You get to hang out, unwind, and have no pressures from all those things sitting written down on that to-do list…