I mean, I haven’t even done up my links list! I’m kind of embarrassed about my links list, actually – because none of the blogs I read are blogs that read me. So nobody’s going to have a clue who I am. I guess I have to start having the kind of nerve that allows me to comment.

And I would happily post pictures of my outfits if only, well, I knew how to take half-decent pictures of myself. Today’s outfit was pretty spectacular, actually! Alas, though. Alas.

It is a very pink little cupcake place. Now, anyone in the Capital District of New York is familiar, at this point, I’m sure, with Bettie’s Cakes. And I will be honest here: I don’t actually like Bettie’s Cakes. Not just because despite my girly-girlness I’m not enamored with pink, but because I don’t actually like their cupcakes. They are overcomplicated and showy. They look like things to be photographed, yes, but not things to be eaten. The taste never grabbed me, either. There was just a lot I didn’t like about it, though as a cupcake lover I sure loved the concept.

So when my father and I encountered Sweet & Social, we figured: another cupcake place. He hadn’t liked any of the ones in his area, either. But we bit the bullet and decided to try it anyway, because while all cupcake places seem to be going the way of pink décor, Sweet & Social had certainly done it best, at least from the window.

And when we went in, we were surprised. Surprised by not just how great the aesthete of the place was, but by how amazing the cupcakes were. They were just right for us: simple, straightforward kinds of sweets like yellow cake with fudge icing, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting, lemon bars — nothing pretentious at all. Just cupcakes. Really, really good cupcakes. There is not an ounce of pretension in this place: it’s great.

Since I am not a reviewer and this is not a review, there aren’t any more details for me to go in besides that if you’re in the area I wholly recommend the chocolate-with-vanilla-frosting mini cupcakes. My father tried a whole variety, along with the lemon bars.

And now for what we’ve all been waiting for: the rest of the pictures. (Sadly, they were taken with a low-pixel-count cell phone camera, as are, at least temporarily, all of my pictures. There is a DSLR in my future.)

An extremely poor shot of the flowers in the window — from inside. Unfortunately, all of my photos are from inside.

The wall adjacent to the door — along with the customer I later apologized to.

If those pictures were bad, though, this one is atrocious. The cupcakes in the picture? Quite the opposite.

The very, very classy wall text. I love wall text. And as a typography nerd, I can say this is some really excellent wall text.

And lastly, we have — the cupcake bar. In case you wanted to sit a little while.

Sadly, we were in a hurry, so I didn’t have a time to determine the relative comfort of the seats at the little bar. But by the time we were finished ordering, other people were sitting in them — meaning they must at least be okay!

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It was my old happy things blog, for good experiences and life’s moments and nice photographic documentation. Its only purpose is to keep track of the good things, the productive things, and the things that are about life and not just about school and work (otherwise known as 98% of my life) so I can look back on them later.

It’s been a long, long time — but I think it’s time to give this blog another run.