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Kumano Kodo

8 January 2019 by kristarella 1 Comment

Last July my team went to Japan. On our main activity day we went for a hike on a portion of the Kumano Kodo trail. It was quite the challenge for me: completely useless at walking long distances, especially up hills. Despite that it was scenic, interesting, and satisfying. Beauty Wildlife Oddities Signs and writing […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Automattic, Japan, meetup

Bible reading printouts

6 January 2019 by kristarella Leave a Comment

In setting up my journal for the year I decided to include two bible trackers. One is all the chapters of the bible, so I can mark what I’ve read in any context (church, bible study, solo study). The other is the Bible Reading for Shirkers and Slackers plan, which is great for those that […]

Filed Under: Bible Tagged With: downloads, journal

Farewell to 2018

3 January 2019 by kristarella Leave a Comment

Twenty eighteen. It happened! This year I tried to summarise the year with doodles. It was a fun exercise; I’m still not good at doodling, but that’s okay! The first quarter was pretty quiet. We attended a couple of birthday parties for friends’ children in January. February was a very routine month, which included working […]

Filed Under: My life & thoughts Tagged With: drawing, journal

Using photo location data

13 October 2018 by kristarella Leave a Comment

I have just updated Exifography to version 1.3.1. The changes in the plugin are relatively small, but one thing it does enable is to fetch geo data from images in a variety of formats. In the future this should make it easier to build add-on plugins, such as a map-based directory of photos. For now […]

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Shirahama, Japan

5 July 2018 by kristarella 1 Comment

My current team at work is named Patronus and we have just spent a week in Shirahama, Japan. Shirahama is a coastal town in the Wakayama Prefecture, South of Osaka. For the first few days it was pretty quiet, it felt like we had the place to ourselves. It got a little busier over the […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Automattic, Japan, Patrons team, team meetup

Highlights of 2017

1 January 2018 by kristarella Leave a Comment

I spent some of my holiday time preparing my bullet journal for 2018 and thought I would make a final spread in my 2017 journal looking back on the year. My depression and anxiety were a bit worse overall this year compared to last, but in spite of that it was a good year. This […]

Filed Under: My life & thoughts Tagged With: 2017, bujo, bullet journal, highlights, overview, photos, review

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Yay! So nice to see old friends and colleagues 🙌🏻🍻
My beautiful happy boy is back! We've had a bit of My beautiful happy boy is back! We've had a bit of a rough trot for a while with teething, growth spurts, and covid, he's been tired and grumpy for some time, but I think we're through all that for now!#marksymonds
New nails on Australia Day; I call it sunset over New nails on Australia Day; I call it sunset over the ocean.I’m also pleased to report that my sense of smell is returning!#sistaco #nailart
So far it's a bit of a trying day with Mark, but h So far it's a bit of a trying day with Mark, but here are some pretties I saw.
Some wins for today! Nail refresh with a 🌈 of s Some wins for today! Nail refresh with a 🌈 of subtle ombres, and yummy home made dinner of pepper steak (recipe in high protein cookbook by @helena__sly) and protein cheesecake with berries. With my sense of smell missing there are a lot of things I can't taste, but I could taste most of this 👌🏻#smallwins #sistaco
I have completely lost my sense of smell. Hopefull I have completely lost my sense of smell. Hopefully only temporarily! It is quite surreal knowing there is something strong smelling and not detecting it at all. Last night I burned these almonds and couldn't smell a thing, so I went and smelled the gin and whisky bottles... Nothing! 🦠👃
Back in the dojo! First training sesh for 2023. Th Back in the dojo! First training sesh for 2023. Thank you Sensei Matt!
#happyplace #karate #stronghumblebrave #gkrkarate
Some of today's feels... Keeping it real. My mantr Some of today's feels... Keeping it real. My mantra this year is, "Breathe. Be patient. Be kind." For the most part it is working pretty well, but I cracked it (in a similar fashion to Mark in the pic) about half an hour ago. It's okay, cry is done, and we're getting on with dinner and bedtime.
#bigfeelingslittlebody #marksymonds #mumlife #mummingishard
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