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Kumano Kodo

8 January 2019 by kristarella Leave a 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

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

Automattic Grand Meetup 2016

29 September 2016 by kristarella Leave a Comment

The GM Each year (nearly) everyone at Automattic gets together for the Grand Meetup (GM). The GM is essentially a company retreat. We work, we train, we develop, we discuss, we play, we eat, we drink… it’s an amazing time of getting to know each other better and working and planning towards better products and better […]

Filed Under: Photos, Travel, WordPress Tagged With: Automattic, Canada, Grand Meetup, photos, Whistler

Kristen is an Automattician!

30 May 2015 by kristarella 5 Comments

This month I officially joined the ranks of Automattic! For those in the know, I am a Happiness Engineer on the Store team. For everyone else, I do support for WordPress.com, mainly for Business plan customers. I love my new job. Helping people with their websites is what made my blog popular, it’s how my […]

Filed Under: My life & thoughts, WordPress Tagged With: Automattic

Automattic totally just acquired Woo

20 May 2015 by kristarella Leave a Comment

WooThemes has been acquired by Automattic! There’s not too much I want to say about this apart from: exciting! The focus is going to be more on WooCommerce than the themes side, at first at least. I hope WooCommerce will be in WordPress.com sooner rather than later. That would be sweet! And since the whole network is […]

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Lego that moves 😄😍 #sydlug #brickfair #afol Lego that moves 😄😍 #sydlug #brickfair #afol
Squeezed in a visit to #sydlug #brickfair today. G Squeezed in a visit to #sydlug #brickfair today. Good fun.
Hogwarts was spectacular!
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Some more fave shots from LEGO City exhibit: Sydne Some more fave shots from LEGO City exhibit: Sydney, ye olde England, Japan, and us 🗼🙂
Birthday parts three, four, and five: lunch at the Birthday parts three, four, and five: lunch at the QVB, monthly bunny checkup + bonus selfies, dinner with Dave, Wayne, and Aki. I totally forgot to take photos at dinner, so I stole a photo from the net of something similar to our dessert. Good day 👍🏻❤️
Birthday part two: Observation deck of Sydney Towe Birthday part two: Observation deck of Sydney Tower Eye.
I don't think I had ever been up there before. Hyde Park looked particularly cool, as did St Mary's and St Andrew's. Thankful for the glorious weather! 😎
Birthday part one: LEGO cities exhibit 👌🏻❤ Birthday part one: LEGO cities exhibit 👌🏻❤️
Some snugly bunnies this evening. 🐰❤️🐰 Some snugly bunnies this evening. 🐰❤️🐰
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