Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Mountain Dew Doritos Cupcakes

This St. Patrick's Day I decided to do something fun - make Mountain Dew Doritos cupcakes.


It's super easy and super delicious, so get your baking tools ready and let's get started!


Mountain Dew Doritos Cupcakes Ingredients


Lemon cake mix


Mountain Dew


Lemon / lemon juice


Vanilla icing


Green food coloring (optional: yellow)


Doritos


How To Do The Dew


Follow the instructions on the lemon cake mix box, but instead of water use Mountain Dew. You may choose to add green or yellow food coloring to your cake batter if you wish, but use sparingly because you do not want to take away from the dew flavor.


Squeeze 1/2 a lemon into the vanilla icing and add a few droplets of green food coloring. Mix well.


After you have iced your cupcakes, add crushed Doritos on top.


Now, enjoy!


More Information


Need more help? Check out this awesome "how to" video by Nerdy Nummies


Do you have a cool recipe or did you make these cupcakes a different way? Please feel free to share in the comment feed below.


Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Monday, July 28, 2014

Top 5 News Stories In Addiction - July 2014

July was full of addiction recovery related news. Check out some of these more popular blog posts on the subject.  Click the titles below for full articles.

Please share with others so that we may continue to help raise awareness and prevent future addiction problems. Together we can help prevent the social stigma against addicts and alcoholics. Recovery is a possible.





Addiction Science News
Medical Marijuana Now Officially Permitted In New York State


Is An Addiction Cure Possible? Professionals Remain Confident In Research


Can People Change? Recovering Addicts Make A Difference

Homeless Recovering Meth Addict Finds And Returns 125k

Friday, July 25, 2014

Top 30 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes





















  1. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford
  2. “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
  3. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein
  4. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt     
  5. “Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.” – Unknown
  6. “Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” – Unknown
  7. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
  8. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
  9. “The bad news: there is no key to happiness. The good news: it isn’t locked.” – Unknown
  10. “To be outstanding, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” – Alrik Koudenburg

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  1. “It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” –Anne Frank
  2. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” –Albert Einstein
  3. “All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney
  4. “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” - Steve Maraboli
  5. “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
  6. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy.’  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” –John Lennon
  7. “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” –Jackie Kennedy
  8. “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” –President Abraham Lincoln
  9. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” –Alfred Lord Tennyson
  10. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank

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  1. “I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.” – Marliyn Monroe
  2. “I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.” – Robert Downey Jr.
  3. “We don’t back off obstacles and tough situations; we use them to make us stronger.” – Jada Pinkett Smith 
  4. “A flower does now think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Unknown
  5. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”- Buddha
  6. “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley
  7. “Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
  8. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa
  9. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
  10. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Sobriety Slogans That We Love To Hate

Sometimes you just need a quick saying or thought to help change your attitude. It can be as simple as using the ever so popular phrase in the rooms, "just for today." Some may find sobriety slogans confusing, some may find them annoying, while others may find them inspiring. It really depends on the willingness to want to accept a different way of thinking and the acceptance of whatever feelings one may be having.

I found myself using many of these slogans in my early sobriety, and still do. I would hear them over and over again and be like "ugh, OK, we get it - first things first" or whatever the choice phrase was for that moment. But when I needed to actually use and apply that phrase to my life, it all made sense. Today I embrace those sayings and take it as a little sign that I may need to listen if I am hearing them too often. There are so many opportunities to grow if I just pay attention.

Here are some popular sobriety slogans that may help you on your path in recovery.

Recovery Slogans

Recovery is a journey - not a destination.

GOD = Group Of Drunks.

Think...Think...Think.

K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Silly (Stupid).

This is a "we" program, not a "me" program.

Just For Today.

We're all here, because we're not all there.

H.A.L.T. Am I Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?

Fear: I may not get my way. Resentment: I did not get my way.

Live & Let Live.

This too shall pass.

Attitude of Gratitude.

First Things First.

One Day At A Time.

Pass it on.

Keep Coming Back, it works if you work it!

Best Regards, Watershed Ashling