CRICKET 2011

A Promise I Make
- Dakota Moon

Girl, you're every breath I take
Oh baby,
Your love rules every move I make
Oh baby,
And I know that you can't read my mind
And baby, maybe I

Don't say it as often as I should
But I really want it to be heard
When I say I love you that's for good
You have my word
That day after day after all
I will always be true
That's a promise I make to you

You, you take this heart of mine
And make it better
I need you to
Come and walk with me through this life
Forever
And I know these words are long over due
And baby, maybe I

Don't say it as often as I should
But I really want it to be heard
When I say I love you that's for good
You have my word
That day after day after all
I will always be true
That's a promise I make to you

I may hold you
I may need you
I may want to
And baby, maybe I

Don't say it as often as I should
But I really want it to be heard
When I say I love you that's for good
You have my word
That day after day after all
I will always be true
That's a promise I make to you

A promise I make to you
A promise I make to you
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I Am Making Valentines
(Sung to tune, "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

I am making valentines,
Valentines, valentines.
I am making valentines,
For the ones I love.

Watch me as I cut and paste,
Cut and paste, cut and paste,
Watch me as I cut and paste,
My special valentines.

See me mail my valentines,
Valentines, valentines,
See me mail my valentines,
To the ones I love.
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H-E-A-R-T
(Sung to tune, "Bingo")

To show you like your special friends,
Just give them each a heart.
H-E-A-R-T, H-E-A-R-T, H-E-A-R-T,
Each heart says I like you!
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Special Friend
(Sung to tune, "London Bridge")

My valentine is red and white,
Red and white, red and white,
My valentine is red and white,
It's for a special friend.

Can you guess my special friend,
Special friend, special friend?
Can you guess my special friend?
Did you guess? It's you!
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I'm a Little Valentine
(Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot")

I'm a little valentine,
Made for you,
Of paper, lace, and a dab of glue.
I'm signed and sealed and on my way,
To say, "I love you" on Valentine's Day!
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A verse by Michael Drayton
Muse, bid the moon awake,
Sad winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate,
This day's Saint Valentine's
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The Words are Those of a Rural Woman - John Gay
Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind
Their paramours with mutual chirpings find,
I early rose just at the break of day,
before the sun had chased the stars away:
A-field I went, amid the morning dew,
To milk my kine (for so should housewives do).
Thee first I spied - and the first swain we see,
In spite of Fortune shall our true love be.
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My Valentine
(Tune - Clementine)

Blow a kiss, Blow a kiss,
Blow a kiss, my Valentine.
Blow a kiss, Blow a kiss,
Blow a kiss, My Valentine.
(Blow a big kiss)

Other verses
Send a hug (hug self)
Dream of me (Lay head on hand as if sleeping)
Be my Friend (hold hand with another)
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A Hug from you
(Tune - Mary had a little lamb)

It's nice to get to a hug from you,
Hug from you, Hug from you.
It's nice to get a hug from you,
So, let's give one right now.
(Hug a friend)
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Valentine Valentine
Valentine Valentine
Gooshy Gooshy Gooooooooooo
Valentine Valentine
Always saying I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

                                            valentine day poem
Maunam aruthe en sahi,
Nin kili nadham en manasil oru,
Ganga pravahamayi.. oru
Janmathin punyamayi.

Nombara poykayil pootha vasanthame,
Vinnile tharakal than kootukari,
Nin chiriyil en kanavukal varnnamayamayi,
Nin mizhikalil en duridhangal ennum akaleyayi.

Kattinte sangeetham kalochayakupol,
Kathirunnu kanmani ninne nyan,
Pranan vithumpuma veleyil nyan dhinam,
Santhwanamay ninne charathu kamshichu.

                                    valentines Day

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Valentine's Day

Top Romantic Ideas

1. Go for a romantic date: A romantic date can be anywhere, where both of you can spend some private moments with each other amidst peace and serenity. Try and plan for a place that can give you a good ambiance. It can be your first meeting place or a place where both of you share endless memories. Be sure to take ample time with you, while you go for a romantic date.
2. A candle-lit dinner: A candle-lit dinner can intensify the passion and romance in your relation. Try playing soft music in the background. It will surely form a stage for a passionate evening. Candle-lit dinners often become the platform for confessions on love. Yes, we are serious. Declare your love for him/her. Share beautiful memories with each other. This will give a strong base to your relation.
3. Bring flowers for him/her: Flowers in their own way can brighten up your love life. A bunch of red roses has always received a special distinction in love. Say you do with a beautiful bouquet of 100 roses. It will wonderfully give your relation an interesting twist. If you want to woo your boyfriend, flowers will definitely help you in that. They have the power to say everything that even words fail to describe. Take the help of beautiful calla lilies, marigolds, evergreen roses, and beautiful bluebells for this purpose.
4. Cook a surprise meal for him/her: Cooking is a sweet gesture. It shows how much you care for him/her. Go ahead and cook a favorite meal of him/her. Do not worry even if you are not expert in this. Your sweet intention is what that really counts in this. To score some more points, you can also sort out some pages of cookery book to find a good recipe.
5. Plan a romantic vacation: A romantic vacation helps both of you to spend some great moments with each other. In our busy schedule, we often do not get enough time for each other. A romantic vacation solves this problem. It becomes very necessary to go for regular breaks to relieve our stresses to lead a blissful life. There are numerous places where both of you can plan for a romantic gateway. Beaches, mountains, and forests make up for beautiful romantic vacations.
6. Go for moonlight walks: A moonlight walk near a beach, park, or a lake will rekindle the fire of romance and passion. Your relation is sure to take an interesting turn.
7. Create a romantic bedroom: Decorate your bedroom with a beautiful romantic theme. Use soft and subtle lights to impart the right ambiance. Candles can also be used for that. Soft fabrics with romantic prints will add magic to the whole atmosphere. Flowers can help you in great deal. Use fresh flowers all over to entice your spirits. Lastly, beautiful wall hangings will complete your job of creating a romantic bedroom that will further create a sweet backdrop for a romantic encounter.
8. A romantic movie: Romantic movie will lift your spirits and for sure give you some strong hints to spice up your relation. You can go ahead and watch some classic romantic movies that are known for their fabulous story. Try getting the DVD at home so that both of you can watch the movie in complete solace.
9. Surprise each other with gifts: Gifts can do it for you. Buy some sweet gifts for each other to express your love and care. Surprise gifts have always lent an important hand to beautiful love relationships. Try choosing gifts according to each other choices and preferences. You know your man/woman better. Try recalling those instances when he/she has desired for a product. That product would be an awesome surprise for him/her.
10. Write poem for him/her: A beautiful love poem can become a beautiful portray of your feelings. Words have always got a huge success in making timeless impressions on each other. Pen down your feelings in the form of a poem and present it to your beloved. Believe us; he/she would be more than happy. If you are not good at writing, you can also take the help of beautiful poems written by great poets like Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Burns, and Emily Dickinson. They are the pioneers in world of poems.

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                                              The history of Valentine's Day

The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.
One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first "valentine" greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor's daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed "From your Valentine," an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.
While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to "christianize" celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.
The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D. The Roman "lottery" system for romantic pairing was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. Later, during the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of February — Valentine's Day — should be a day for romance. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. The greeting, which was written in 1415, is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England. Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine's Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.
According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.)
Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400), and the oldest known Valentine card is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap."

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FRIEND SHIP

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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes) 

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis
"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
- (sent by Jess)
"One's best friend is oneself."
- (sent by Jess)
"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
- (sent by Heather Tallent)
"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido
The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"

4}"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background."
-Claudette Renner
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
-Cher
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-Goethe


"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mocuriac - Sent in by spiff
"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
- (sent by Jennifer Chen)
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign", (sent by Rory Bristol)
The following 5 quotes were sent by Danielle N. Redfield - Thanks!! :) :)
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."

"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (sent by Julio Fung)
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert


"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome