About Julie
My name is Julia Lee Sharplin Ashley. I'm 45 years old right now because I was born in 1961 on November 23rd. Thanksgiving Day. [More about that in the eZine.] I live in Sterlington, Louisiana with my husband, Allen. His name means handsome and he is. Allen is my soul mate, really. He is very hard-working, loving and, most importantly, a great father.
I also live with seven of my ten children, A.J., Tommy, Jackie, Sandy, Matt, Sarah and Zelma. My oldest child, Melissa, is married to Paul and they gave me my first grandson, Patrick in 2006. My second oldest child, Holly, is living in Mississippi for now with my first granddaughter, Stardust, who was born in 2005. Sadly, we lost one child in March of 2001 to a miscarriage.
Also residing at 130 Tony Road in Sterlington: one ferret, two dogs, one guinea pig, one rabbit, one parakeet, one gecko, countless frogs, two hermit crabs, countless cats, four catfish, one red-tailed shark, three tropical fish, one sucker fish, one mutant catfish and three, no- two, no- just one remaining goldfish. Apparently, catfish like to eat goldfish.
Although I was born in Delhi, not far from here, I actually grew up in the southern part of the state. That's probably why I can't stand to go anywhere that it snows. This weather in this area is much better than south Louisiana because it floods a lot. At least it did where we lived. Here the weather is relatively pleasant almost all the time. We don't have tornados, hurricanes, snow storms or even tsunamis. We do have gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, pleasant springs and falls and very tolerable summers and winters.
My mom moved our family to north Louisiana after my father died suddenly when I was just 15. I have never believed in coincidence but now that I know that God knows me, I know I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.
My love for computers goes way way back. Instead of a picture of a boyfriend, I carried a picture of a TRS-80 Color computer from Radio Shack in my wallet. I was attending ULM when it was NLU as a Computer Science major when my dear husband swept me off my feet and straight to Holland, where he was stationed with his Army unit.
I finally got a computer right after we bought our first home in Lakeshore Subdivision in Monroe. It was a generic model built for me by Thomas Medford's sons and had a humongous hard drive of 2 gb. There were several episodes with it that were nearly disastrous including an internet porn virus, a cd tray broken off by a falling toddler and finally something I don't remember forcing me to have the hard drive "fixed" by the 14 or 15 Medford son. When he brought it back to me, I asked him if he'd fixed it. Yes, he had reformatted the hard drive. No, I said, looking at him incredulously, I mean did you fix it. Yes, he admitted, and then he accepted my $300 check in payment. At that very moment, I decided to actually learn about computers. I don't build my own computers though. I accept "broken" computers from people who are throwing them away and I fix those to use myself.
Now I’m enrolled in NLU again, though now it's ULM as a Computer Information Systems major.
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