Let’s Not Panic – YET.

(First of "Feedback Fridays" - Krispy Kreme alternatives & one VERY SPECIAL t-shirt!)

We Ungirdled Women are nothing if not adaptable, resourceful, innovative improvisers.  I believe when faced with possible catastrophe, you should have an emergency plan so you can be prepared for the worst, should it come.  So that is just what the Ungirdled Sisterhood shall do.

We must face the truth.   We may very well lose Krispy Kreme.  How can we prepare?  By having some worthy substitutes for the little pieces of heaven known as hot Krispy Kreme glazed donuts ready in our snacking arsenals.  True, nothing will be as good.  But let’s not let that stop us from working together to come up with the best tasting alternatives we can. I URGE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR KRISPY KREME REPLACEMENT SUGGESTIONS AS COMMENTS (just click the word "comments" below this post), and together, we can weather this storm, should it actually come ashore.  YES, WE CAN!

Here are my two offerings:  Krispy Kreme Donut Bread Pudding (see Wednesday’s post) made with the best glazed donuts you can find at your grocery store.  My second idea is Panera Bread’s Cinnamon Crunch Bagels, lightly toasted, with their honey walnut cream cheese.  I get these whenever we have out-of-town guests.  I have learned not to buy them the night before, but the morning of the PLANNED eating time, as they are devoured before morning if I get them too early.  Again, not as good as a hot Krispy Kreme – those NEVER have made it out of the Krispy Kreme parking lot – but a decent substitution. 

To make up for breaking the sad news about Krispy Kreme to you this week,

HERE IS SOMETHING SURE TO MAKE YOU LAUGH UNTIL YOU CRY OR LOSE BLADDER CONTROL!

At least it did me.

Longtime friend and alert follower Jewel called attention to this gem on Facebook yesterday.  I urge you to go to this link for the three wolf moon t-shirt, look at the product, and then read the reviews (you can either click 108 customer reviews or scroll to the bottom of the page.  YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY).  You might also get a kick out of what "customers who viewed this item also viewed."  

 

HERE'S A FUN PARTY IDEA:  buy one of the Three Wolf Moon t-shirts in XL, print out the various reviews on card stock, have party guests pick one from a hat, give them 15 minutes to practice their review, and have each of them stick in some Billy-Bob teeth and take turns donning the shirt and giving the review in the manner they think the review's author would want it delivered.  As they do this, videotape them for a "commercial" you’ll share later with them on CD or DVD burned on your computer!  If folks don't have their own set of Billy Bob teeth (makes me wonder why you're friends with them if they don't) you can use black olives over some of your front teeth to create a pretty nice black or knocked-out tooth effect.  See!  You don't need Martha Stewart for entertaining ideas if you have me!

I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE for making my first week of blogging so much fun!  Everyone has been so nice, so welcoming and encouraging!  I feel the love and shoot it right back atcha!  I realize I still have TONS to learn and I’m so grateful you’re along for the ride.  I have been visiting lots of other blogs (A special thanks to Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat for giving me a shout-out in their post today!  Check them out!  Great, fun blog!  I will continue to add to my list of favorites on my blogroll in my complete profile – just click “view my complete profile” on the left.)  I have noticed other bloggers include a FAQs section for their readers in their profiles, so even though I’m new, I wanted to do the same for you, so mine now appears to the left.  I think I have also figured out, for the many of you who have asked, how to add a gadget for you to easily get email subscriptions!  Tryout the button in the upper left corner of this window.  Thanks for subscribing/following/bookmarkin' and telling others!  Thanks to you, word seems to spreadin' as quickly as my Ungirdled behind!

Thanks for all the love!  Have a great weekend!  See you Monday!  DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR KRISPY KREME SNACK ALTERNATIVE AS A COMMENT BELOW!

OK, Now This Recession Has Gone TOO FAR!

I was working on another post as my first “real” post, when something alarming and disturbing came to my attention.  I knew you’d want to know about it too.

 

Just when I thought this recession couldn’t get any worse, THE WORST has happened.  I was strong when some of my favorite gift shops around town closed up, resilient when local real assessments plummeted, and I kept a stiff upper lip when I learned Polaroid would no longer make its magical cameras and film, but THIS is too much.

 

According to a recent prediction by Moody’s Investor Service, Krispy Kreme Donuts is in real danger of closing up shop. WTF?!!!  Most Ungirdled women will count Krispy Kreme donuts – their hot, glazed donuts - as one of life’s simplest yet greatest pleasures.  (Ungirdled woman have the experience and wisdom to know what is worth the calories.)  If you have never had the good fortune to go to Krispy Kreme when the “hot sign” is on and indulge in the warm, orgasmic goodness of their fresh-off-the-conveyor-belt glazed pieces of heaven in donut form, I urge you to go to www.krispykreme.com and seek out the closest location. TODAY.  Call ahead to find out when the hot light is on, and go there and wait.  You will not be sorry.  Don’t believe me?  Maybe you’ll believe world-renowned culinary expert Chris Rock.  This is what he has said about Krispy Kreme donuts:

 

“Krispy Kreme is Kracky Kreme.  That’s how good Krispy Kreme donuts are.  If I told you right now they had crack in it, you’d go, ‘I knew something was up.  I knew these donuts are too damn good.  Got me knocking on the donut window at 2 o’clock in the morning, going, “C’mon, man!  Open up man!  Give me one more donut!  I’ll do anything!  I’ll suck your (bleep)!  That should be the new slogan for Krispy Kreme.  Krispy Kreme:  so good, you’ll suck a (bleep)!  ’”

 

Unlike Chris Rock, I can’t guarantee that a hot Krispy Kreme will be (bleep)-sucking good to you.  Every woman sets her own (bleep)-sucking terms, and an Ungirdled woman’s are incredibly stringent.  I can promise you’ll be glad you made the trip.  Remember, the Krispy Kremes have to be hot.  A hot Krispy Kreme is an entirely different animal than a cold or even room temperature Krispy Kreme. 

 

While I don’t get to Krispy Kreme very often (it’s a good thing it’s located across town, otherwise I’d weigh every bit of 400 pounds), like the mother you don’t call every day, it’s always a comfort to KNOW it’s there for you.  Like many Ungirdled women, I have lots of fond memories involving Krispy Kreme donuts.  As a small girl, our brownie troop toured our local Krispy Kreme, delighted by the sight of those beautiful rings of dough taking a gentle bath in hot oil, followed by a shower of glistening sugar glaze.  My father would make an early morning fishing trip more appealing with the promise of a hot Krispy Kreme on the way to the shore.  Throughout middle school and high school, we sold dozens to fund school field trips and activities.  When we were young and mom had to be hospitalized for a hysterectomy (that’s when they use to hand out hysterectomies like bank tellers handed out lollipops), my father wanted to console us in her absence with a treat of hot Krispy Kremes for breakfast.  Knowing he wouldn’t have the time to drive to Krispy Kreme and back that particular morning, he purchased the donuts the night before to warm them in the oven for us the next morning.  I grew up thinking my daddy could do no wrong.  But I soon found out trying to make your own hot Krispy Kremes was a big, heaping bowlful of wrong.  They turned hard and crunchy and truly inedible.  We laugh about it now, but it took decades to get to that place.  There are few things worse than anticipating a hot Krispy Kreme and getting what we kids actually got that day.

 

I encourage you to take your children or grandchildren and make your own special…sniff…Krispy Kreme memory before it’s…sniff, sniff…too late.  Be sure to take your…sniff…Polaroid to capture the event.