There are many things that I couldn’t live without, but I have picked just five to tell you about today.

My Journal.

I have written my thoughts into a notebook for many years since 1993, I started it quite sporadically although I am now on journal number 51 which I think is staggering!  Some of these include notebooks from online courses though.  During the latter years that I was with my ex I didn’t always write my thoughts out and there are only ten from the time I spent with him, so that's an average of one a year.  Since I left him, however, I’ve filled thirty notebooks that are just my thoughts in the last eleven years!  That's an average of 2.7 notebooks a year!!!

I try to write in my journal every day and I am currently trying to write consecutively and I'm currently on day 190.  Some days are very haphazard thoughts with my monkey brain jumping from one thought to the next and sometimes back again.  Other days I write about something specific that’s bothering me at the time.  I often use it to help me work things out, like last year I used it to help me organize how I was going to do the declutter of my space.

A glass of water is always by my side.

I've drunk a few glasses of water a day for many years and I think that I started it while in high school.  I can easily drink two litres of plain water a day, that's not including all the tea that I drink, especially on a day off.  I can drink five large cups of decaf tea in a day, and the large mug I use is about double the size of a normal mug.

I'm currently loving reading again so I would have to say a pile of books to read.

If you read a recent post from Sunday, February 3rd, you will know that I have twenty books on my 2019 reading list that I'm aiming to get through this year.  I always seem to buy lots of books and never or rarely get around to reading them ...  Is anyone else like that?  It's as though I'm afraid of running out of things to read!  

Sunshine; my mood is definitely better if the sun is shining.

I haven't been tested for it but I do think I might get a bit of seasonal depression in winter as I notice a difference in my moods when the sky is grey and hiding the sun over when it’s blue and the sun is shining.  As soon as it's light out I open the curtains as soon as I can to let in as much natural daylight as possible.

My driving license and car.

I passed my test almost five years ago now.  Previously I could afford to learn to drive but not afford the car, insurance and all that comes with keeping a car, so I didn't learn.  Also as I live so close to work I didn't really need to drive.  Going to visit my mum on the bus and carrying heavy bags home after doing the food shop was starting to get annoying though.  I came into some money a few years ago when my dad's mum died because my dad had already passed away, my brother and I got some money each.  I used some of this money for the initial car payment and my first year is insurance.  Learning to drive is definitely one of the best things that I have done for myself in the last eleven years.

What things are you unable to live without?