Denise aka Yvette.

Hey Everyone.

Today I'm going to write about my sister/bestie Denise. Yesterday she asked me "Why do you like me?" and I told her I'd write about it :). Here I go Denise, These are some of the reasons why I Love you!

Denise.... Denise is an amazing person and I wouldn't trade to have her as a friend for anything in the world (I know it might sound cheesy but it's true). She means a lot to me and not just in the I can't have a good day unless I talk to her way but in the I can't live without her way. Denise is beautiful, caring, funny, hard working and the list goes on. We have never had any arguments and I'm sure if and when that time comes we will work through it. I can tell Denise anything and trust her with what I've said because I know she wouldn't tell any other person.

I love Denise like if I have known her since we were born :P. We are really close and share a lot in common (It's not even funny). We believe in abstinence, family comes first, and we know that we are always there for each other. I've never judged her and never will. Everyone makes mistakes in life and that shouldn't decide some one's reputation. Denise you mean more than I can express in this blog. I don't care what anyone else says about you Denise. I'm happy God put you in my path because I know you are a exceptional person.

With Love,




-Katie <3

The Gain & Loss of Friends (Good & Bad)

Hey Everyone,

Today I was inspired by Denise (Yvette) to write about friends that I have gained and friends that I have lost over the years. I've met alot of different people in my life and some are and aren't worth mentioning. Have you ever been so close to someone that if you didn't hear from them you got really worried? I have, I've worried about alot of my friends. I can't help that, I'm a caring person so I guess it's in my nature. I'm going to talk about good and bad times. Here are some people who have made it worth mentioning:

I'll start in 7th grade (That's 4 years ago) when I met this girl named Tricia. On the first day of school in Band class (I played and still play the Flute) I saw this Blonde headed girl behind me who looked lonely. I walked up to her and introduced myself and from there on we were friends. We grew really close as time passed and she would tell me a bunch of stuff as I would to her. I would stay the nights at her house (even during school days) and she would come to mine. My mom really trusted her mom so we could go alot of places together. Her mom was super nice to me and I still like talking to her every once and a while, To see how she is (no it's not weird lol). We were really close until it hit the year of 8th grade. She met new people and started hanging around and talking with them and from there on we began getting detached. We would still talk and share things but it wasn't completely the same. The fight we got into that really separated us was a mixture of when she started hanging out with a girl named Mia and when her and my other bestie Jessica liked the same guy. I didn't really care all that much that Tricia had started hanging out with Mia because I knew Tricia was smart enough not to be dragged down with the bad crowd so I didn't really say much at the beginning. As their friendship started progressing I'd found out that Mia was getting her to smoke and drink alcohol. That didn't really set well with me and when I tried to confront her about it, it got blown WAY out of proportion. It got to the point where Mia wanted to fight me "for talking shit" (her words) and it was just drama!!! Is it my fault that I didn't want one of my best friends to start getting into bad things? I don't think so! When we talk about Jessica & Tricia I was put in the middle of the whole situation. Colton who was the guy that liked Jessica and Tricia liked him. He sat next to me in Social Studies and would always get me to get Jessica to go out with him (It was kinda cute). In the beginning I hadn't known Tricia liked him so I would tell Jessica what Colton would tell me. They started going out and it got into a huge mess!!! I found out through people that the entire time me and Tricia had been Best Friends she would talk "stuff" about me behind my back. I've learned to forgive and forget which is why I've talked to her a couple of times to set things straight but we aren't nearly as close.

In 8th Grade I had meet these amazing pair of ladies named Jessica & Ruby. Jessica was in my Math & Social Studies class and Ruby was in my Social studies class too. It was a look at each other and mouth things and laugh period since we were all together lol. Jessica quickly became really close with me. I immediately thought of her as family. Me & her were really close but when we graduated Middle School she went to a different HS and we drifted apart. Ruby was crazy, loud, and funny! Jessica, Trica, Ruby, and I were our own little group that always hung out together. Looking at the good times we all shared makes me smile.... Middle School is a Drama filled place that i won't mention talking about my bf who cheated on me with 3 other girls!!

Lets pass all the DRAMA of Middle School and go to wonderful grounds of High school... I have to admit watching movies about HS made me feel nervous about going to a new place with new surroundings. I quickly got over that when I found out a handful of friends from Middle School were going there so most of us would always sit together at lunch and talk & laugh. On the first day of school I was lost lol. I didn't know where I had to go and what buildings to go to but I took the courage to ask people and eventually got to class even if it was late.

I've meet some incredible individuals in my Freshmen & Sophomore years of HS. Alicia, Chelsea, Jose, Candace, Raby, Marina, Diana, Gaby, Aviana, Ana, Katie, Evelyn, and Juan. The people I mentioned <<< were all people who made me laugh and had fun times with but grew apart from. It being not having the same class anymore or moving schools. People who I've meet that are amazing and I have stayed in touch with are Denise, Erick, Alma, Mayra, Steven, Gaby C., Shatara, Carlos, and Sergio (If I'm forgetting anyone sorry, I'm kinda tired :P).

Denise is beautiful, caring, and a wonderful sister/friend to me. I met her in Spanish Class and since then we have been the best est of friends. We talk about e-v-e-r-ything!! I love her like family and I don't know how my year would have been without her. I've helped her alot this year and I'm extremely happy I could give her encouraging and understanding words to help her through the rough stuff. We are planning to live together when we go off to College. She wants to be a teacher which I think she will do amazing at. I love you & I'm happy I met you :).

Erick.... ay! hehe. Erick is loud, thinks he is black (haha), funny, and is a very caring friend and will back them up no matter what! I love Erick because he doesn't really care what people think about him because he will just laugh it off with his silence breaking laugh. He has grown into being one of my best guy friends ever! I care about him alot and we talk about alot of stuff. He's always wanted to here me sing and when he went to the end of the year Choir Broadway concert he got to. I sang a solo and he said "Omg, my eyes began to tear up. You sing beautiful" XP. He's my Loud Negrito as I call him.

Alma, Alma, Alma.... She is a handful (in a good way). I care about her alot, she's nice and funny. She means alot to me and I'm really happy that we are friends so we can talk about her crazy experiences that only she seems to go through lol. Alma and I together is a day filled of Rated R talking lol jk. I love ya Alma.

Mayra, My "Cousin"... Mayra and I talk about alot of stuff and have become best friends. She's my choir buddy. My mom and her mom met when we had a girls day at the movies to go see Dear John (Channing Tatum was Sexy!). Her mom is named Gina and she is very sweet. "When we get married" lol. It's a joke between me and her.

Oh Steven! Steven is awesome... He absolutely loves Lady Gaga...He is my best guy friend ever! She's so funny and I shared alot of good times with him being Choir Officers together. When I stayed at his house the day of our California trip (my first time going) it was sooo funny. We had a good time. I love him and will miss him very much.

There is sooo much more to say but if I keep writing my fingers will fall off! lol. I hope you liked this post! I love all my friends!

-Katie <3

My Favorite Quotes

Hey Everyone,

Today I was talking on the phone (still am :P) with my beautiful sister/bestie and I kept telling her random quotes that kept poping into my head. She told me that I should write about all my favorite quotes (I can't name all my faves, that would take up my whole blog page). I'm gonna share some that stand out to me and that I can think of off the top of my head. Here you go:

"Heavens not a place that you go when you die, its that moment in life where you actually feel alive...." - A Song

"Always ask for what you want even if there is no chance of getting it." - Ms. Donaldson

"Do what is right because it is right" - Letters To Iwo Jima

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."- James Dean (American motion picture actor, symbol of rebellion, 1931-1955)

"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

"It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel."

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." -Maria Robinson

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams." -Ashley Smith

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." -Tom Bodett

"In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while." -Albert Einstein

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." -John N. Mitchell

"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally." -Zelda Fitzgerald

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do" -Nan Fairbrother

"The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior." -Abraham Maslow

"A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration." -Percy Bysshe Shelley

"There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love." -Arthur Wing Pinero

"While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.” -Ambrose Bierce

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied" -Mark Twain

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." -William Shakespeare

"Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." -Norman Cousins

"Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes."

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." -Pope Paul VI

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends."

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr

These are just some of my favorite quotes. I'm a quote fanatic! I could sit in my room an entire day just reading quotes. I can't believe I actually remember all these took me a extremely long time. I don't care because I wanted to share them with you all. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I do.

-Katie <3

My New Look!!!

Here is my look before the different hair....














Here is me after....









I look really pale because of the lighting. I look super duper white.
I got Blue contacts.

Does It look good or bad? Comment :).

Thank God I Didn't Choke!

Hey Everyone,

It's 5:33am and I just almost choked to death exactly 3 minutes ago. I was reading over chapters in the 1st Vampire Diaries book while sitting here at my desk. I got a craving for something sweet and went to the refrigerator and got a piece of cake (which is very yummy) and a water bottle. Then, I returned with my cake and water to the book.

I started eating the cake and when I ate the next bite I took a drink of water to help it go down (which failed!) and It got caught in my throat. I put my hand over my mouth because I could feel a cough coming on and I was trying not to because I still had water in my mouth. I couldn't help it so I coughed and the water went everywhere.

I proceded coughing until I didn't feel the cake in my throat anymore. When I didn't feel it I looked around and I saw that there was water on my computer (which thank goodness the water stayed on the keys and didn't go through the keyboard). Instead of going to the bathroom to wash my face off I ran to the kitchen to get napkins and rapidly whiped off my keyboard.

I'm thanking God right now that I didn't choke and freak out while I was choking. That would have just turned into a MESS and most likely me really choking alone in my bedroom while everyone was sound asleep. Ha.. that would have been a "Good Morning" for my mom when she walked into my room and say me laying on the ground with cake in my throat.

Whew!!!! I have to say that was a wake up call, my throat still hurts and I dared to finish my cake lol. You might ask yourself did she clean up? To answer you: Yes I did, after I cleaned off my computer of course :P. I'm not eating cake when I get another craving for something sweet. Hey!, maybe it's Gods way of telling me not to eat so much hehe. I still love him though, that for all eternity will never change.

Thank God I Didn't Choke...
-Katie <3

I Don't Understand!!!

Hey Everyone,

Today I was thinking about what my life and realized that other people's lives around me were better. I've been on summer break for about a month and a half now and I realized that I've only been out of the house about 6 times. Here they are: To go help out a friend who ended up moving in with my mom and I, go look for a house, go to wal-mart to get my nails done and go to the movies (I had to argue to get out) for my birthday, take my roommate (Brook) to the doctor, go to Pizza Hut with my mom and Brook, then go to the mall to buy Bath & Body Works stuff and go see Eclipse with my mom, my friend Amanda (she had an attitude the entire time) and Brook. That's it!!

I'm happy I at least got to go out to have fun twice. It's just that I talk with all my other friends and every time we talk they are out doing something. I mean it's summer shouldn't I get to go out of the house? I would understand if I was a bad kid and every time I went out I started something or tried to runaway but, I don't even think of those things. I listen to my mom, stay home when she says, get good grades, concentrate on school since that's the most important thing to have a rewarding future, and it's feels like that's not enough. I get exhausted sometimes because I go through these things in my mind all the time and don't understand why I can't have my freedom.

I understand I have to help my mom take care of our roommate (Brook- she's disabled) but, every time I ask to go out it's "No because you have to help me with Brook" or "You can go if you take Brook" or Brook is saying No. I wouldn't mind taking her but it's every single time I go out. I care for Brook, I know it's not her fault she's the way she is and is in a wheelchair but, I should be able to go out with my friends like I used to before. I love my mom and I love Brook too. I've known her and helped her since my mom started working to take care of her like 6 or 7 years ago when I was 10. I just think I should be able to be a teenager! I should be able to go out and have fun with my friends! I should be able to have the freedom because I'm a good teenager!

I hope you don't think I'm over reacting or that I'm blowing it way out of proportion. It's just how it feels to me. If you could walk in my shoes everyday and see what I go through I think you would understand why I feel this way. If you have any suggestions or wanna tell me anything leave a comment.

Told ya that it is gonna be a bumpy ride. I'm a 16 year old teenager lol.

-Katie <3

Introduction To Me!!!

My name is Katie Mercado. I was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico. I'm very proud to be 100% Puerto Rican. I moved to Phoenix, Arizona when i was just two years old. When i was a baby i weighted exactly 2 pounds and 6 ounces. I was 2 inches bigger than a soda can. I was a small little thing. I thank God that i grew up to be big and healthy! When i was born i had blue eyes (awesome) but then every six months they changed from Blue to Dark Green to Bright Green to Hazel to Greyish ( I know weird) then to Brown. Don't get me worng I love my Brown Eyes it's just it would have been cool for them to stay Blue. I celebrate my birthday every year on May 25th, I was born at 11:45pm when I came into this enormous world! I just celebrated my 16th birthday, nothing to special just some dinner with my mommy and a friend.

I Have to say that My heroes are my Mom and Dad.
I love them so much. They are the world to me.
I wouldn't be able to do nothing without them! My mommy is a good mother. She's always done what she could for me and I have always had a roof over my head. Thx to her. I love my parents dearly and they own my heart as well as God. He's always been there for me through the good & the bad. He has always protected me from harm and has given me a good life so far.

There's way more to come.... Stick around for the journey through my life with me. :P
Gotta warn you though it can get pretty bumpy along the way.

-Katie <3