Cornflake girl
When I began blogging I thought perhaps my family and a few friends may read it. I even thought some people I didn’t know might read too. Writing brings me great joy and I’m happy to share it on the blogosphere.
I have been lucky. I have some regular readers and have made some wonderful connections and real friendships, this was something I didn’t even contemplate when I began. I have been to conferences, meet ups, brunches and emailed being asked to blog about products, services and community organisations. I have even said yes to some of those emails!
But, never, ever in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be a cornflake girl.
You see, many moons ago, before children and marriage there were three girls. My sister a friend and me. We lived close to each other and were finishing uni. We baked scones and had afternoon teas. We sat in the sun in each others yards. We danced into the wee small hours and walked the steep hill home in the bitter cold of Hobart winters. And through all this we had a soundtrack. A soundtrack that to this day peppers our conversations, keeps our memories alive, wraps us in the familiar and makes us laugh and cry and love.
Our soundtrack was Tori Amos. Her songs spoke to us. They still do. They are the warp and weft of our early twenties. When we were finding ourselves, falling in love and full of future promise. We have lasted distance, time and years.
So, when last Thursday I was invited to a brunch by Louisa of Brand Meets Blog and Kelloggs, I thought I may get a few cereal boxes to take home. Which I did… and my growing almost teen Blue Eyed Boy has been in cereal eating heaven since then. There were a number of other goodies too, and it was great to have a chance to speak with Kelloggs representatives and talk about concerns and give feedback, as well as eat a yummy brunch. But, what I didn’t expect was to get my very own cornflake box. Complete with my face on it and my blog.
I am a cornflake girl… so now all that is left to do is ask: Rabbit… where’d you put the keys, girl?
Do you have an artist like Tori that floods you with memories?
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That. Is. So. Cool. I am envious in the I’m-really-happy-for-you-but-wish-I-had-me-one-of-those-cornflake-boxes-with-my-mug-on-it kind of way.
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Thanks Shelly… even my son was impressed!
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So cool, all of it. Love seeing your smiling face on the back of the cereal box. If there was a like button I’d be pushing it.
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Thanks Sarah, it really did make my day. We did suggest Kelloggs might like to sponsor some of us to go the Blogher next year…. I’d swap my cornflake box for that… I think!
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Never was a cornflake girl… Is that how it starts? That’s definitely not true for you now, Nomie!
For me it’s Black Box and Cold Chisel who provided the soundtrack of my late youth. x
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Ah, Cold Chisel… as for Black Box, I think there was some dancing to that in my velvet A line mini and Doc Martens!
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Actually Tori as well. Why do we crucify ourselves?
(Best concert of my life was Tori and a piano, no other accompaniment, at the Seymour Centre in Sydney in the early 90s. It was so beautiful I cried.)
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 11:28 am
I know someone who went to that. I may be extremely jealous of you both.
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Stella Orbit Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
I went to THAT concert! It was 1992. And I also crashed the stage door with a red rose. I nearly died with excitement. It is up there are the best live performance I ever saw. I have a signed photograph somewhere …
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Oh MY LORD! Can I touch your hand – in a non creepy way.
I was going to use that title when I posted about my cereal box
Teach me to be slow about writing 
My song – and still is, I went and listened to it twice after reading this – November Rain by Guns ‘N Roses. Helped me through the teen years.
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
oh, sorry Karen.
I must say I loved a bit of Guns ‘N Roses in my late teens.
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Love your box!!!!!!
That’s just awesome – well done someone savvy @ Kelloggs and well done you.
Would it be really sad if I hand fashioned my own version?
Yeah, thought so.
Thank you for my ‘tune of the day’.
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Was very savvy. I was impressed overall I have to say by the Kelloggs team and their approach. The box was the icing on the cake…. or should that be the sugar on the cereal!
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I love the box! It’s so cool you get to keep something like that, and that it has special Tori Amos memories for you as well.
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
As soon as I was handed the box the song came into my head. I was busting to text my sis & friend!
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As you know, Tori moves my spirit. I love her.
I love your cornflake box!
xx
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Naomi Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
She does that doesn’t she. Such a beautiful voice.
I’ve been having a bit of a Tori fest since you tweeted about her a week or so ago. xx
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It was seriously the coolest addition to a goody bag, wasn’t it!
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Absolutely! A great personal touch!
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Love it! The Cornflake box, the blog, and the memories. I still ask our lovely friend, “but what if your a mermaid”, but now you too have your own Tori song! And I know this means nought to any but we few, but; it’s a skirt, it’s a dress, it’s a skirt, it’s a dress!”. So very glad we grew up together!
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Ah… the dress, skirt, dress. Those were the days!
xxx
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That is so very cool! JEALOUS! Not only of your cornflakes but also because I don’t have an artist or music or even a song…boo!
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I hope you find a song one day. We all need one. You can share Tori if you want
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I love, love love Tori Amos. Adore.
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
She is sublime isn’t she.
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Tori, Tori, Tori….how i love that i was introduced to her by none other than our dear friend
how wonderful. Also the Cranberries ‘linger’ is amoungst it too. Staying in Hobart recently the rabbit escaped & i couldnt stop singing ‘Rabbit where’d you put the keys girl’ for days…
How excting about your Cornflake Girl Box! Whooooot xxxxxxxxxxx
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
See, Tori has a song for every occasion!
Ah, now linger… that makes me think of our dear friend too! Music has such a big role in our intertwined lives doesn’t it.
xxx
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Oh.. this is really awesome. really really awesomeness!!!!!!
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Thanks! Almost a week later and I still smile whenever I look at it!
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Oh wow!!!!! I love it!
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Thanks Thea, pretty chuffed I must say
This one’s not going in the box work basket that’s for sure!
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Oh dear…cornflakes, mermaids and lingering…..Did I tell you I made my poor husband sit through that concert in London and pretend to be one of you??? He didn’t look half as good in the ‘its a skirt, its a dress’….xx
ps thank god your picture is on that box and not a milk carton (nice one babe)
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Naomi Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
I can see your hubby in a skirt, dress, skirt! Xxx
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