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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 […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Automattic

Some bunny moments from the last week or so ❤️ Some bunny moments from the last week or so ❤️🐰
New phone night shot 🌃📷❤️ New phone night shot 🌃📷❤️
Great night! Finally getting to celebrate this mar Great night! Finally getting to celebrate this marriage together... 11 months after the wedding. Yay team! 🥂❤️🎊
I realised about 3 hours after taking these photos I realised about 3 hours after taking these photos that they are somewhat thematic today! 🌹❤️
Portrait mode on new phone. What a handsome boy! Portrait mode on new phone. What a handsome boy!
Australia Day Beach class. Glorious weather, clear Australia Day Beach class. Glorious weather, clear water, sweat, fun, and sand. 🥋🏖❤️
#gkrkarate #gkrregion1 #karate #australiaday
Monty is feeling a lot better 🤩 just look how k Monty is feeling a lot better 🤩 just look how keen he is to get out of the carrier! (When really sick they just hunker down and sulk) I hope he doesn't resent us too much for the medicine we have to give him for the next two weeks 😬
Our little Monty boy had to go to bunny hospital y Our little Monty boy had to go to bunny hospital yesterday. A bit anxious to hear how he's doing this morning. I hope he can come home today 🤞🏻🙏🏻🐰❤️
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