Have you watched the television show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” When the kids were home over Christmas break, we played the game modeled from the show. I learned how much I don’t know. I had trouble answering some of the basic questions. It was so crazy. I was especially inadequate when it came to remembering anything in the science category.

I didn’t take chemistry when I was in high school because I was afraid of having to memorize all of those symbols on the periodic table. Today’s students have a good tool to use when learning about the periodic table. They can see the table at Chemicool.com. There is also a forum that will help with any questions they might have. There is a chemistry dictionary and a chemistry tool section that includes property graphs and calculators. My future daughter in law will love this site. She loves math and chemistry.

My mom’s sister, who I always called Aunt Audrey, made the cutest Raggedy Ann dolls. She always embroidered a heart on Ann’s tummy that said I Love You. I think that was a tradition when making Raggedy Ann dolls.

Raggedy Ann was a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle. Mister Gruelle wrote children’s books beginning in 1880. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book Raggedy Ann Stories. A doll was also marketed along with the book to great success.

Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter, Marcella, when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll and he drew a face on it.

Marcella died at age 13 after being vaccinated at school for smallpox without her parents’ consent. Authorities blamed a heart defect, but her parents blamed the vaccination. Gruelle became an opponent of vaccination, and the Raggedy Ann doll was used as a symbol by the anti-vaccination movement.

If you haven’t already noticed, I love Valentines Day. It is the break I need to put some fun into these bleak, gray winter days. I want to find some ways to make this blog look more festive and convey my love for romance and treating our loved ones with a little bit of affection. It seems like we all get into the spirit of Christmas but tend to forget about the Love holiday. I am intent on changing that. We need to get our minds off of politics and shoveling snow.

As soon as I get a few jobs finished here at work, I am going to play with Valentine’s Day fonts from FontMarketplace. For a very inexpensive special price of $9.99, they are making it fun and affordable to choose from a huge selection of Valentines Day Fonts. From different colored hearts to cupids with their ever ready arrows, it is going to be fun decorating my website. FontMarketplace.com has made it easy to download fun and beautiful fonts. I am glad they are in the spirit.

Now, if you aren’t seeing any hearts on my blog by the end of the day, please send cupid over and have him shoot my boss in the butt.

You can read more about FontMarketplace.com and their new Valentine’s Day Fonts in the following press release.

FontMarketplace.com introduces Valentine’s Day Fonts
Specially-priced set of fonts with matching Microsoft Word templates for St. Valentine’s Day cards, invitations and other projects

Elk Grove Village, IL – January 29, 2008 – Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced a new collection of Valentine fonts available exclusively from its FontMarketplace.com website. The Ascender Valentine’s Kit contains five Valentine-themed fonts matched with five expertly-designed Microsoft Word templates. The software package is available as a convenient digital download with a special price of $9.99 at http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/ascender-valentines-kit.aspx?ilbcode=679

“Valentine’s Day is an important holiday to express love and friendship, and it’s important to use the right font to project the image or personality that best captures your sentiments.” said Bill Davis, Vice President of Ascender Corp. “The Ascender Valentine’s Kit contains a fresh set of distinctive fonts and unique templates that can be used to make attractive Valentine cards, invitations, flyers, scrapbooks and many other projects.”

The Ascender Valentine’s Kit contains five TrueType fonts that are well-suited for Valentine’s Day and all year-round. They are matched with an original set of professionally-designed Microsoft Word templates for a variety of Valentine’s Day projects including cards, flyer, postcard and invitation.

The Ascender Valentine’s Kit is priced at $9.99 with a single user license and is available for immediate download from http://www.fontmarketplace.com. The price represents a savings of almost 60% compared to buying all five fonts individually. The Valentine’s Kit is available with an automatic installer for Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, or as a compressed .zip file for Mac OS or other systems.

FontMarketplace.com features affordably-priced professional-quality fonts packaged individually and in sets. The website offers a wide variety of popular type styles from text and display to script fonts, and an assortment of multilingual fonts, all displayed in creative ways to showcase the fonts in use. The FontMarketplace.com website was designed to make it easy for first time font buyers and creative enthusiasts to browse, download and install fonts. All of the fonts are Certified TrueType fonts, developed and tested by the font experts at Ascender Corp.

About Ascender
Ascender Corporation is a leading provider of advanced font products. Ascender’s founders are font industry experts and have been involved in developing many of the most important and influential fonts used in computers and mobile devices. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development for a wide range of customers including creative professionals, enterprises and hardware & software developers. Ascender also provides fonts for download to graphic designers and consumers through its font websites and mobile phone software with ringtones, wallpapers & themes.

Contact:
Bill Davis
Ascender Corporation
25 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 225, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA
Phone: (847) 357 0730
http://www.ascendercorp.com
http://www.fontmarketplace.com