{"id":163,"date":"2005-04-29T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/163"},"modified":"2005-04-29T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:56:58","slug":"a-whole-ton-of-random-sonya-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/163","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Ton of  Random Sonya Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my adenoids out,   and tubes put in my ears,   when I was little,   which was my only hospital stay.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never broken a bone.<br \/>\nMy hair falls out a more rapidly than average.<br \/>\nI love divulging information about myself &#8211; it&#8217;s more attention.<br \/>\nI hit my newborn sister in the nose with a baton when I was 5. It was my birthday.<br \/>\nMy first school-age crush was on Jason Boyd.<br \/>\nMy first crush ever was on Michael Magnus.<br \/>\nI cut of the tip of my left third finger with a papercutter in a dark room. It grew back.<br \/>\nI play (more or less proficiently) the trombone, euphonium, and tuba.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve kissed two boys my sister has kissed.<br \/>\nAs a baby, I never crawled. I was too fat.<br \/>\nMy last name was changed from Gr\u00c3\u00bcn when my family came to America.<br \/>\nMy parents named me after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnc.net\/norway\/henie.htm\">Sonia Heine<\/a>, the famous ice dancer. Only they spelled it with a &#8216;y&#8217; because they thought an &#8216;i&#8217; was too hard for a little girl to write.<br \/>\nI have texture issues with eating &#8211; I dislike most beans and hate chili.<br \/>\nI once saved a turtle&#8217;s life when I was firefighting in Maryland.<br \/>\nYeah, I said Maryland. I was a wildland firefighter during AmeriCorps*NCCC.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never seen a Die Hard movie.<br \/>\nI once stuck a raisin so far up my nose my dad had to take me to the emergency room.<br \/>\nWhen I was in fourth grade, I wanted to change my name to &#8230; Trissy.<br \/>\nMy first kiss was in the back of a school bus in sixth grade.<br \/>\nMy grandma taught me how to knit when I was in high school.<br \/>\nI started knitting my first sweater senior year and didn&#8217;t finish it till I was a senior in college. It&#8217;s hideous.<br \/>\nI was the editor of my college paper &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.sau.edu\/thebuzz\/\">The Buzz<\/a>.<br \/>\nI hated fourth grade.<br \/>\nOne of my nostrils is larger than the other one.<br \/>\nMy favorite book is The Little Prince, and I have a tattoo of the little guy on my back.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a sucker for technical gadgetry.<br \/>\nI like spinning yarn. I have this big bag of alpaca fiber sitting at home. 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