Welcome to Just Jay! A lifestyle blog with a lot of sunflowers everywhere. Take a look around and make yourself at home.

Welcome to Just Jay! A lifestyle blog with a lot of sunflowers everywhere. Take a look around and make yourself at home.

August. My birthday month. A month of salt air, of wine bottles sipped away, of Taylor Swift lyrics looping. A month where I feel an intense pressure to make every moment count. This year was a little different, though. I’ve been carrying a kind of pain I’ve never known before, and was finally at a … Continue reading Living for the Hope of It All
If you’d told 2022 Jamie that she’d have travelled to multiple countries on her own, she’d never believe you. But once I experienced solo travel for the first time, I just wanted to do it more and more. Don’t get me wrong – I love a girls’ trip with my best friend or a romantic … Continue reading The Art of Doing It Alone
Say whatever you feel, be wherever you are I wonder if Noah Kahan realised when he wrote the song “You’re Gonna Go Far” that he would have changed my life for all time with just one lyric. Probs not. But thank you anyways, Noah. This song is the main song I associate with my exchange year abroad, … Continue reading Be Wherever You Are
SO, its my birthday 🥳 I was going to do a “25 things I learned by 25” post again this year but I decided not to. It’ll be the same cliche things I’ve done for the last few years. Instead, here are three things that I’ve really had to learn and grow through this year … Continue reading QUARTER LIFE CRISIS