Our 14th - C-Level & Cupcakes Squared

[Another late post commemorating our wedding anniv earlier last month, on July 1st! 8/8]
Our 14th anniversary was today and all I can say is that this year is so much better than last year's anniversary. I had some mean ass hives all over my body - most likely due to sun sensitivity as well as my body going out of wack from my treatment last year. When I went to the hospital to get checked for the hives (this was my 2nd appointment), they told me I had to go to ER because I had a fever over 100! WTF!

So, that's how we spent our wedding anniversary, in the damn hospital for nearly one week until my fever was gone. I definitely do not miss those damned early morning blood sample injections! On a nicer note, Bert, TC and I had lunch at C-Level/Island Prime on Harbor Island... C-Level/Island Prime. See the Yelp reviews here.



This was my drink - it was ginger ale with crushed basil and mint (it didn't look too fresh unfortunately). While I did enjoy the drink, it's just not very appetizing to see brown edges on herbs.Kinda dark where we sat.
Sweet potato fries. These were pretty damn tasty. Nice and crispy, not burnt. The thickness was just right too.
Calamari with what they called "Vietnamese" dipping sauce. I wasn't too fond of the chili spiked fish sauce. The flavor was way too strong for me to enjoy it.
My salad with mixed greens, red onion, and sun dried pear. The balsamic dressing (not pictured) and bleu cheese were on the side. While I liked my deconstructed salad, I found the bread a bit too crispy and flavorless.
Fettucine with Clams in a light cream sauce... The offending bread was put aside and uneated while the clams were inhaled.
Bert's Lobster BLT - light and fresh tasting, according to Bert. The lobster wasn't rubbery and every ingredient was cool and crisp. It came with a ramekin of melted butter (oh yeah).
TC's mac and cheese with fruit (instead of fries):
We walked along the bay in Harbor Island after lunch...
Me and TC walking along Harbor Island. God, my arms look so fkg fat! I bought that blouse in Gilroy on our way down to Pebble Beach during our vacay...I also have the same shirt as TC. It's by Simon Legno, the creator of Tokidoki. He has some low cost t-shirt designs at Target (see the line of Kids tees here), which is where I got that shirt. Hers is a M, while mine is an XL; I can still fit into some girl's XL! Yay!After our nice outing at Harbor Island, we went over to Point Loma to try this cupcake place one of my friends raves about. It's in a crappy looking strip mall, right next to Stump's Marketplace. The name Stump's just sounds so ugly. It reminds me of limb stumps, or finger stumps, or stumpy nubs. Ewww.This place was Cupcakes Squared. See the Yelp reviews here.
It's very tiny inside - it's basically a takout place. I don't remember a table inside the place, but there was one outside.
The square shape is a novelty indeed, but do these suckers taste any good?
There were lots of flavors to choose from...
I picked four mini ones (found out later that wasn't a good deal for my $$$ - $1.50 for the tiny one - less area in the smaller one than in the larger ones which go for $2.75 - more bang for your buck). This was for a friend - it's boxed up with a tulle ribbon! I broke out my Summer 2008 Tokidoki. The print is Carnavale, the bag style Graziosa (messenger bag). I have three of the same style but in three different prints (Carnivale, Concerto Punk and Celebrazione).
This was the vanilla cupcake with passionfruit frosting...I would have liked this more if the cupcake batter itself had passionfruit in it, rather than just the frosting. It had fresh lime zest as you can see.
This was chocolate (or was it coffee) with a chocolate frosting, topped with a coffee bean.
This was TC's mini lemon cupcake:
Ugh, you can see my jacked up fingernails. No nail polish. Dry cuticle skin!

So, yeah. Fourteen years...although we've been together for 24 years (since high school)!