Why Twitter is Better Than Facebook.

I have had a Twitter account since 2009. I have had a Facebook for about a long. For the longest time I preferred Facebook over Twitter, but I have recently changed my mind. I just figured out why. Facebook doesn't have as fast of a post rate. I have 400 friends and I have liked tons of pages, but I get a new post about every five minutes. Whereas on Twitter I am following 200 people and I get a new post to read every 30 seconds on a slow day. I know that this is showing my age, but sometimes I just want to waste time burying myself in posts. That is when I go play on Twitter. That is my revelation of the day. It is only a blog post because I couldn't get my thoughts out in a tweet.

"Stay square and fight the robots." -- Squaresville

Love,
Alora

Upgrades

So I haven't blogged in a while because spring break happened and then hell week ensued like a month early. I have been quite busy, but today I want to talk to you all about upgrades. Everyone is constantly upgrading. Upgrade Chrome. Windows updates (bane of my computer productivity). Upgrade to a smart phone. The word upgrade means move up. I recently have "moved up" in the small universe of the Early College Office at Mary Baldwin College. My supervisor is taking about a month off and I get to sit in her chair, use her computer (like I am right now) and answer her phone! It is the best thing ever. I am so excited, but when I was reading The Oatmeal I was prompted to think about my content on here. I just have been blogging about myself lately and not ideas or funny stories. From now on Letters to the Parents will be less focused on me and my life and more on life in general and my ideas and things. If that makes any sense. I will still be updating my life and stuff, but I am going to provide more content that is more relate-able than just "I did this today..." So Letters to the Parents is upgrading, sort of. I have finals in a two weeks so there won't be much change for a little while, but after that I will be moving stuff around and having a new content party. Feel free to join in on the comments. Please share and check back often it really helps keep the blog alive.

Thanks,

Love,
Alora

Home Sweet Home and Dentistry

          I am home for spring break and loving it. So far I have hung out with my family while cleaning the house, watching movies, and just playing around. Yesterday, Jamie (Brittan's boyfriend) came over and hung out for a while. Before he did we cleaned the house up. While we were cleaning (by we I mean Mom, Maxwell, Zara, Me, Brittan and Dad) Dad realized that Brittan and I clean the house really well. His exact words were: "I had forgotten how much of a positive contribution [Brittan and I]. . .made around the house." I felt so loved when he said that. It made me happy inside. On another note we also went to McKay's yesterday. Jamie and I helped Brittan find the plays she needed for her theater class because she doesn't want to buy the textbook. I didn't get any books, but we found most of Brittan's plays.

          Today I went to the orthodontist for a consultation. I have a cross bite and my top jaw is smaller than my bottom jaw. I have horrible teeth. Yay! Also they took pictures, like actual with a camera ones, of my teeth. It was super painful. They stuck mirror in my mouth and pulled  my cheeks apart. Now I have a really small mouth so the mirrors didn't really fit: at all. It was super painful. In the end they used a small kid one. I need a small kid thing when they draw blood too. I have to ask for a baby needle because I have small veins. Also, they are really hard to see through my skin. At one point I was trying to get blood drawn and they stabbed each arm twice before finally finding a vein. It was not fun.

          Tell me about a time you had fun being tortured by your doctors or maybe sometime you cleaned the house.

Try to refrain from falling out of trees.

Love,

Alora