Hey There

{a photo I took after one of my runs a few weeks ago}

To say it's been awhile is an understatement...when you aren't in a very good place in your life the last thing you want to do is write about it.  After taking some time to reflect I've realized I missed this space.  Now, more than ever, I'm convinced that something really wonderful is in the works for M's future and I want to document this time in our lives.  Here's to trying another crack at this crazy blogging thing...

I hope you and your families have a wonderful weekend!  We will be spending sometime with friends at the pool, grilling, watching last season of Homeland finally {thanks to a win by the husband against the cable company}, and just enjoying life.  Cheers to the weekend!  

20 Questions

1. What brings you the greatest joy? My husband, M, and my friends

2. What are your vices? Chocolate, Ice Cream, and being over dramatic {sometimes}

3. What is on your nightstand? My moleskin journal, Kindle, hand cream, a lamp, and a picture of M

4. Do you have a secret talent? I can wiggle my ears

5. What is your greatest indulgence? Soul Cycle classes and champagne 

6. What should every woman try at least once in her life? To live by herself for a year.  Prove to yourself whatever the future holds you can take care of yourself.

7. What makes you laugh? M hands down

8. What is the one thing people would be surprised to know about you? I was the biggest brat as a teenage-seriously the biggest bitch ever.

9. What is on your bucket list? Lots and lots of travel, have kids one day, make a movie

10. What is on your feet right now? Bare feet

11. How did you make your first dollar? as a hostess at a fine dining restaurant when I was 15

12. What superstition do you believe in? Wishing on eyelashes

13. What items in your closet do you wear the most? Jeans, J. Crew tops and wedges-basically my go to everyday outfit

14. What is the best gift you've ever received? Tattoo on my 25 bday of M's name.  He has Brit on his wrist too.

15. What is on your liquor shelf? Tequila

16. What is on your kitchen counter? kitchen knives

17. What would you never leave home without? my cell phone

18. What movie has the greatest ending? 

19. Who is on your guest list for your ideal dinner party? Jon Stewart, M, Ryan Gosling, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Middleton 

20. What is the one thing you wish you had known when you were younger? Sometimes reality is better than your wildest dreams

{questions borrowed from here}

Five on Friday

Hallelujah! It is Friday!  Is anyone else thrilled it's the weekend?  No big plans this weekend, except our  Sunday LA family dinner we do once a month with about 20 of our friends from GA/people we've met out here.  With friends starting families it is a great way for us to stay connected. So let's get this Friday blog party started and talk about the 5 things that rocked my world this week.

{1}

The Tone It Up Girls...yes, I'm late to the party.  M actually introduced me to them years ago, but I didn't take notice until now.  He works in the fitness video industry so he's always looking for new talent.  Well, my sister is ripped and she credits her toned arms and legs to at home workout videos.  This week I gave up a day running for weights and I turned to these girls.  Thanks ladies!

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WhatsApp being bought by FB for $16B!  My girlfriends and I are addicted to this app.  Most days I don't know what I would do without it.  It's gross to be so dependent on technology sometimes, coming from the girl whose phone it attached to her hand 24/7. 

{3}

My new favorite Soul instructor, Kym.  Y'all if you ever visit LA you have to visit Soul Cycle for a class.  She is ripped, plays amazing music, and I pretty much want to be as cool as her one day.

Abs to die for.  #mygoal

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T0MS is launching optical glasses.  They are kind of fabulous and uber stylish.  Even though I don't wear glasses I am temped to get a pair.

{5}

Happy Birthday to my favorite (and only) sister in law, Allie!  She turns the big 29 tomorrow.  I wish we could be there to celebrate with you.  Last year of your 20's sis...enjoy it!!!! xo

Getting ready to go "clubbing" at age 16 Alpharetta, GA.  We thought we were so cool!

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Hello-long time, no type.

The past few months have been a whirlwind in good and bad ways.  It feels like life is finally starting to get back on track and I’m excited about it.  I don’t do well with change internally, but externally I always have a smile on my face.  I don’t want to be looked at in a negative light.  M’s finally got his happy wife back and let me tell you, the one who moved in for a few months was one big bitch.  Looking back now I’ve realized I needed to go though those changes to get to where I am now-you can't be happy all-the-time.  I’m embracing my new future, new bosses, new friends, new challenges with an open heart.

I think sometimes we add pressure to ourselves to be the best at all times.  No one can keep that up, even Beyonce, just look at her doc from last year.  She struggles with it too.  I want this to be my happy place where I can share what’s going on in my life and not worry about being the best blogger out there.  So today the pressure is released off my shoulders, I’m standing proud and ready for whatever life throws my way next. 

Here we go…

Make Lemonade

Sometimes life is full of surprises, today is one of those days.  My boss resigned and took the CEO position at Lululemon (announced today).  As sad as I am to see him go, I am so excited for his new opportunity.  Seriously it's a dream job (after Louis Vuitton, Burton & T0MS, of course) and he is the perfect fit according to Business Insider.  It also doesn't hurt to have a friend who works for your favorite workout brand.  Congrats LP!!  You were a dream to work for and hopefully we will have the opportunity to work together again someday soon.  As for me, I am staying at T0MS supporting the COO.  Life is good here in Southern California.  

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert changed my life.  It came out when I was getting ready to move to LA and I was scared.  I quit my job, moved home and was waiting tables.  I felt like I had the entire world at my fingertips.  As I was reading I found myself highlighting passage after passage; I just couldn’t get enough, it became my anthem.  Although I’ve only read it once and I despise the movie {not a Julia Roberts fan}, this book will forever be apart of shaping my early 20’s.

"You have more good luck than anyone I've ever met. You will live a longtime, have many friends, many experiences. You only have one problem in life. You worry too much. You always get too emotional, too nervous. If I promise you that you will never have any reason in your life to ever worry about anything will you believe me?

For work, you do something creative, maybe something like an artist, and you get paid good money for it. You always get paid good money for this think you do. You are generous. Also one problem. You will loose all your money once in your life. I think it will happen soon."

M knows my dream 40th birthday present is a mini Eat Pray Love trip with my girlfriends.  Ahh what an amazing gift that would be!

32

Happy Birthday to my darling husband, M.  Today 32 years ago you graced the world with your presents and I couldn't be more grateful.  Cheers to a wonderful day/weekend filled with the ones you love.  I love you and can't wait to see what the next year has in-store for you.  xo, Peach

{circa 2011}

Words

You can accomplish anything you want, but in order to do that you have to do one thing first.

A Job

I absolutely 100% love my job!  Each and everyday I wake up and can't wait to see what the world has in store for me.  When I took the Birkman test I scored very high with creative jobs as well as social service industries, so obviously T0MS is the perfect place for me.  We create amazing products that give back worldwide.  Yes, working for the President as his assistant does have some struggles, but they positives far out weigh the negatives.  I basically get to come to work each day and work with like minded people who want to do more for humankind.  Also, our office is kind of amazing.

A failure

The "NEY" Sisters
2007

This one is hard because who really likes talking about their failures in life.  One of my biggest regrets is how I treated my friends when M and I first started dating.  He very quickly became my world.  All I wanted to do was spend time with him and I left my friends on the way side.  

There is one friendship that sticks out in my mind particularly.  Courtney and I met in pre-school and were instantly inseparable.  We would spend the night at each others house, go on vacations together when we got older, our lives were very intertwined even though we didn't go to the same school.  Some of my favorite childhood memories are with her.  When M and I started dating Court was now not a priority.  Over the next few years we drifted in and out of each other's lives and ultimately our friendship fizzled out shortly after college.  We are still friends on Facebook, but it's a really pathetic comparison when you are talking about someone who you've known since you were 3 years old.   

If I could go back in time I would have put the energy into our friendship.  We live across the country from one another, but there is no reason why we can't still be in each other's lives.  

A Talent

I've never thought of myself as one with many talents so I almost thought about skipping today, but why not challenge yourself to think outside the box.  One thing that I'm very proud of is that I'm very good with people.  I guess you could call this a talent?!  I recently took a personality test called the Birkman and I scored in the 99th percentile relating to people in groups and 62nd percentile when relating to individuals.  My Executive Mentor said this means that I really, really, really like people.  I laughed out loud when he told me this because one of my favorite memories is waiting tables {yes, I know a lot of people hate it}, I absolutely loved it.  I loved getting to know my customers, it made me really happy.  

In the next few weeks I will go more in depth about my Birkman experience.  It is truly amazing what I've learned about myself.

An Experience: The Thankful Project

November is one of my favorite months of the year.  My darling husband was born, Thanksgiving, changing of the seasons, really there is nothing not to like about the month of November.  I came across a new blog this morning, Chasing Happy, and loved her link-up.

An Experience

The one experience that I will forever being internally grateful for is moving from Atlanta to Los Angeles 5 years ago.  In high school when M told me he wanted to purse a career in Hollywood I knew it would mean leaving the only place I’ve ever lived.  He was so passionate about his dream and I knew he was “the one” that I could never have said no.  I didn’t want to be the girl who stood in the way of his dream.  After 10 years of knowing we packed up my car two days after getting married and headed west to our new life. 

Our first year was hard, really, really hard.  I guess you could say the first 6 months I basically cried all the time and wanted to move home.  We weren’t living the glamorous life I thought LA would offer.  As time passed I became more comfortable living here and making it our home.   We have amazing friends here and a job that I love!  At this time in my life I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Sometimes I like to play mind games with myself and imagine what our life would be like if we moved back or stayed in Atlanta.  It’s a great life, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not the life for us.  LA is home for us now and probably forever or at least until M makes it big and we can build our ranch in Montana.  Either option will do.  

Five on Friday

{1}

I have never been more grateful for my own car.  M's car has been in the shop for the last 4 days, so we have been carpooling.  Knowing that you are stuck at work until he's ready to go has made me truly appreciate my freedom.  We are also a few thousand dollars lighter, but I'm not going to think about that.

{2}

Have you heard of the app Heads Up?  Well if not, download it not, you also might have seen it on The Ellen Show.  It is pretty incredible.  My co-workers and I take a 15 minute break around 5 PM each day and play.

{3}

Christmas.  M and I were going to go to London for the holidays and visit his sister and brother-in-law, but after pricing it out and tracking flights for over a month we decided against it.  Damn the exchange rate.  After lots and lots of talking we decided to stay in LA.  I've made Christmas Eve dinner reservations at Mastro's, scouring Pinterest for Christmas dinner ideas and am even thinking about going to Mammoth for a few days.  It might not be what we are used to, but we will make it the perfect Christmas for us.

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{4}

My half-marathon is less than a month away and I am freaking out.  What did I sign myself up for?!  I have 16 training runs left until the big day.  Honestly I can't wait to get back to my normal workout routine of Soul, Barry's and classes at work.  I miss the variety.

{Photo Credit}

{5}

Big weekend plans ahead folks.  On my agenda is to clean, clean some more and organize.  I am so over the clutter in my life.  I can't wait to re-organize our apartment and purge.  These problems occur when you work for apparel companies.  Too much stuff!