200008 Birthday Three Breakfasts

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When I was maybe eight, so my mom was maybe 34, we talked about the turn of the century. It sounded so space-age. She told me that in the year 2000 I would be forty-three. Good one, Mom. I remember imagining how it would feel to be so old and have power in the world and to know who I was and to be content. I remember being certain that I was going to have a white nightgown with a black-and-white checkered bodice, not only like the one my mom had, but reminiscent of the black-and-white checkered cover of The Real Mother Goose.
Breakfast at Mancini Mansion with Jill, Nate and Monsieur Zooko
Jill got up very early and bought groceries for me to have breakfast in bed, which was so sweet of her since her birthday is also August 4, and we drove over to the Wilcoxes' house. Have I told you about Mancini Mansion? Imagine ... a Rococo palace. Imagine ... a California Junior Ranch house. Morph. This place is so cool. It has a teensy circular driveway, wrought iron gates, very very very tall palm trees in front. When you walk up the symbolic flagstone steps into the imposing foyer, you can see the foyer is about all there is to the main part of the house. Walk another ten feet and you would be in the backyard. There are terrazo floors, mirrors, pink and gilt. There are huge windows bringing the best of what used to be called the Santa Clara Valley inside the house, and a kitchen big enough for six bachelors to share. Breakfast in bed at Mancini Mansion. Cool.
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I've heard a few stories featuring Zooko's breakfasts, so I had been fantasizing about his making one for me for quite a while. I also have a few fond memories of waking up at Mancini, so I simulated that, crawling into bed while the culprits went off to the kitchen. I was counting on the Nefarious Photographer to capture the enactment of my Zooko cooking fantasies. So while I was luxuriating in Amber's bed I found out I got a phone call from Marilyn, the first person who hired me at Cisco! Marilyn wanted to recommend me and my work to a friend of hers. :-) Turned out I didn't have enough battery juice for Nathan to get the pictures I wanted, so I went and joined my friends in the kitchen and ate the world's best potatoes; sorry, they are all gone now. (I am not sure what all nonsense we agreed upon, but I do recall that we solved the problem of cooking with heat by agreeing to import our food from the planet Mercury, so we would need only to cool it; and that it turns out the fabulous Samsung phones owned by the two birthday girls have an obscure key combination that functions as a tit detector.)
Breakfast at Chez Laney with the Proprietor
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Steven, of course, is familiar with the Birthday Breakfast thing. He didn't have a meeting til 8am on Thursday, and oh, my, he made me a beautiful breakfast, featuring my old favorite Peet's black currant tea. And look at those roses!
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Breakfast at Drano Palace with Kristin and the Nefarious Whoosie
For breakfast on my actual birthday, August 4, Kristin [middle] and Nathan conspired to prepare luscious fruit and muffins and granola and the perfect iconic cocoa I have sought since my childhood. She brought in the cocoa in a mug with a chunk of banana impaled on the rim, like an umbrella in a tropical drink, it was so darling, and so satisfying that coffee now seems only a pale shadow of the memory of the perfect breakfast beverage. Kristin had layered all kinds of fruit in one of my ceramic bowls so eating it was like unearthing buried treasure. We invited Dirk over to share it with us, but we still couldn't eat it all. It's August 7 now and I still have plenty left.
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