Good Times with Jess

I started blogging in 2004. My blog and I have been very single, dating, traveling, bartending, very married, very knocked up, raising 2 kiddos and now I’m back to traveling around the world. Let me know if you need help with that

Main characters in my blog:
Captain – my husband
BB (Baby Bop) – my oldest kid
RB (Rainbow Baby) – my youngest kid

Quick timeline of my life if you’re still able to tear yourself away from my blog:

Born 1982 in Worcester, MA: Jessica Hart Burday, 8 pounds, some number of ounces, very long. Destined to be 6 feet tall.

Newborn to 18 years old: 50 Barbie dolls collected. Millions of ballet classes and cheerleading practices attended. Some friends made.

18 to 21 years old: College! Umass Amherst: Lifeguarded in Disney World, studied abroad in France and was an active member of a safe sex theater troupe.

22 to 23 years old: New York City! Court TV internship and miscellaneous bartending jobs.

23 to 24 years old: San Diego! Lived and worked in a hostel. Slept in a bunk bed in a room with 11 other people. For a year.

24 to 25 years old: Traveled around the World! Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, India, Nepal, Monaco, France: worked on a private yacht, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Egypt, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Costa Rica.

26 years old: Moved back in with my mom.

27 years old: Took off traveling again: Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana. Other places visited: Israel, Greece, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, England, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Puerto Rico, St. John, Turks and Caicos, and The Bahamas.

28 to 31 years old: Finally ready to sign a lease! Moved to Davis Sq, Somerville, MA outside of Boston. Bartended at Temple Bar in Cambridge, MA, experimented with online dating and blogged a lot. Went skiing and met Captain.

32 years old: Got engaged! Moved to Fort Point in Boston. Experimented with an office job. Quit office job.

33 years old: Married my amazing husband Captain and got knocked up one week later in Greece. Or on the Cape, the night of our wedding. Hard to say.

34 years old: Baby Bop is born!

35 years old: Moved to the burbs

37 years old: Rainbow Baby is born!

38 years old: Two littles and a pandemic

40 years old: Middle age

41+ years old: Travel Designer Extraordinaire

More countries visited: Ecuador (Galapagos), Croatia…

Stay tuned

Good Times with Jess
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