one thing i can't live without

I've decided to join in with Helene and Taylor for #Blogtober14.  I'm pretty hopeful that this daily blogging adventure for the month will help me get motivated to keep posting something daily regularly!  

I'm trying to get better.  Really.  I am.

Anyway, I'm going to pick up on Day 3, and today's prompt is:  One thing I can't live without.  

Seems easy enough.  But wait...a million things have just popped into my head.

My furbabies.  They count as two 'someones' in my eyes, though.  So they doubly don't fit the parameters.  This isn't to say they aren't the most perfect babies in existence.  Because this, I assure you, is positively the truth.

Hmmm.  Diet Pepsi?  No, I could live without it.  And totally should.  But I just can't get up the nerve to walk away from such a loyal friend that it's become to me.  Not yet!  Look, I know it's not good and I know that it's not doing me any favors.  If I have to listen to another lecture on this topic for the bajillionth time, my head just may explode.  

And as I'm writing this, I've just received a text from one of my bestest friends on Earth asking if I'm finished with the invitations I'm making for her.  And BAM, it's just hit me.

I can't live without creativity in my life.  For me, it comes in many forms.  Writing.  Making.  Painting.  Crafting.  Cooking.  Photography.  Walking around Hobby Lobby for hours daydreaming and thinking and making myself dizzy. *sigh*

My invitations alone give me such an outlet that I can't imagine not having.  I can't remember exactly how I originally got into it, but I'm pretty sure my very first ones were some treasure map invites for my little cousin's birthday.  I made them crumply and aged and parchmenty.  Fast forward a few years and I LOVE getting calls and messages from people I've never met--but they've seen my work and want to order from me.  I love the challenge.  I truly feel like it's a gift I've been given--to help others celebrate milestones in their lives.

So, what can you just not live without?

On another note, IT'S FRIDAY!  This is my favorite day of the week.  Isn't it everyone's?  I've just watched the trailer for the movie The Good Lie which opens today in theatres.  I want to see it, ASAP.  It's about the lost boys of Sudan.  Any good movies out there you're aching to see?