Carrie

Four years

May 26, 2011

Four years ago today, I married my best friend in the world. It’s been a crazy and awesome four years. In our first year of marriage, we bought ourselves a fancy-pants new SUV, aka “The Fay”: Year two is when we bought a new house. I can’t seem to find a picture of it, so [...]

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Happy birthday to my lovely wife

March 4, 2010

Today is my wife Carrie’s birthday. She’s a delightful woman, and I’m so happy that we’re continuing to build our family together. Carrie and I first met on October 4, 2003 at my friend Lou’s 30th birthday party. She won a prize for a contest for kissing the most people at the party, and I [...]

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My preggo wife

November 20, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any personal-type updates here. And it’s been even longer since I’ve shared anything with you, my loyal readers (you ARE loyal readers, aren’t you?) about the boys. In fact, last time I posted about the boys it was to announce that they WERE boys. (On a slightly related [...]

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A new laptop? Don’t mind if I do!

November 18, 2009

My good pal Jenn at Free and Flawed is having a super awesome contest. She’s giving away a new HP Pavilion dm3 laptop to one lucky commenter on her blog. I highly recommend you enter her contest, which simply entails commenting on this post and sharing your (hopefully) embarrassing “first screen name ever”. Right now [...]

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What It’s Like To Be Married To Matt Stratton – By Carrie Stratton, His Wife

June 2, 2009

It’s Guest Post Week here at Good Old Rock…today’s post comes to us from my very own wife, Carrie. My mom always used to tell me that “eggheads rule the world.” Yes, that is a quote from Full House, which was my favorite show growing up. What she meant was that marrying a geek could [...]

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Tax, Title, and License

January 29, 2009

Last night, my wife complained to me about the sub-title of this blog: “wallowing in my own crapulence”. She said it was disgusting. So I’m looking for some ideas on what, perhaps, I can change it to . For those of you who haven’t figured it out, both the title and sub-title of this blog [...]

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My dog is awesome

January 19, 2009

Scout Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton So poor Scout had to have a cyst removed from his head last week. We got the good news today that it was totally benign (it is some kind of tumor that develops from a hair follicle) but they got the whole thing excised and he should be just [...]

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