Pete Carroll sent me a hat & a signed picture

[Hawk Sista]

So, I got home from work last night & had a package on the stoop. I didn't think much about it, even when the return address was Seahawk HQ. but inside was a 8 x 10 of Pete signed to me (name spelled right) and he said happy birthday Mary Anne. A Super Bowl hat came with it. As it turns out, a friend's position coach in HS & college played ball w/ Pete and Fresno's former Mayor - & they had it sent to me.

Ain't trying to brag.... Just sharing. I don't seem to be smart enough to add a photo to this site or I would.

[PasadenaHawk]

That's very cool!

[Distant Relative]

Wow Sista, that is Super cool!

As far as adding a pic just go to the bottom of the page and click on upload attachment and browse your pics and click on the one you want to upload. Hope that helps.

[FolkCrusader]

I can't think of a fan that deserves it more, Sista. Happy Birthday!

[mykc14]

That is very cool, Happy Birthday!

[PasadenaHawk]

Oh yeah, happy birthday too.

[c_hawkbob]

So, I got home from work last night & had a package on the stoop. I didn't think much about it, even when the return address was Seahawk HQ. but inside was a 8 x 10 of Pete signed to me (name spelled right) and he said happy birthday Mary Anne. A Super Bowl hat came with it. As it turns out, a friend's position coach in HS & college played ball w/ Pete and Fresno's former Mayor - & they had it sent to me.

Ain't trying to brag.... Just sharing. I don't seem to be smart enough to add a photo to this site or I would.

Oh that's just too cool! (you know I know how cool it is to be on the receiving end of such kindness! ) No one deserves more that you, happy B-day ideed!!

[Futureite]

Wow pretty FN cool. Great when an NFL coach takes time like thst to make someone's day. That's awesome!

[NorthHawk]

Happy Birthday, Sis!
What a great present to receive.
I am truly envious, but there probably isn't a better place than with a girl who loves her some Seahawks!

[Bird Droppings]

Everybody seems to think it's cool.

I think it's hot.

...and happy birthday.

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[Zorn76]

Sis - I can picture Pete snapping his chewing gum while signing your hat:)

Very cool of him - and your friend - to make it happen.

Happy Birthday!

I hope all is as well as can be:)

[burrrton]

Sis is like the Forrest Gump of Seahawk fortune, with things like this, and walking into VMAC and hanging with Big Walt, and so on.

Nice work, Sis, and happy b-day.

[Hawk Sista]

ok..................first of all, thank you all so much for the warm wishes and kind statements. You are too kind to me...and I really appreciate it.

I do realize that I am so lucky sometimes it is just crazy, outside of the cancer, I kinda lead a charmed life. Like getting to hang out with Michael Jordan for 2 rounds of golf (like 12 + hours), like out-driving Tm Flores (loser) in around of golf, like having a friend whose daughter is a top 20 (yes.... in the world) tennis player (Sloane Stephens), like having a dear friend whose brother is a Grammy award winning jazz singer & I get invited to concerts all over the globe (Gregory Porter and I've only been to two concerts, both in the states), like staying at a hotel where every hot movie star was staying, and many other cool things, none more so than my awesome day at the VMAC...it was my favorite ever. I really cannot believe it sometimes. And yesterday, I was way blown away - I just could not figure it out. My friend came over to check it all out and told me how long he's been on this tack to get me something signed by Pete. It's all too cool.

[Hawk Sista]

I guess I got it figured out............ and now that I have.... you guys can pick my avatar:

this one with me and Pink's guitars just after getting to hang out with her?

[Hawk Sista]

The one I that is there now - me in La Jolla, CA.

This one - from when I was but a wee young lass

[c_hawkbob]

Baby Sis gets my vote!

[Hawk Sista]

Or........... the pic I use on my professional stuff (pre-cancer baldness)

[Hawk Sista]

or.................bald cancer girl

[HumanCockroach]

Happy Birthday Sis! And hope this is just the beginning of a really, healthy, happy year. No one on here deserves it anymore than you do.

[Eaglehawk]

Nice Sista! Nice Bday present!

[RiverDog]

Cool!

A belated Happy BD, sis!

[c_hawkbob]

or.................bald cancer girl

Rotate 'em once a week ...

[FolkCrusader]

I know this is probably an awkward statement, Sista. But I find bald women strangely hot. I'm a real sucker for when their hair just starts coming back in and it looks like a spice cabinet got dumped on their head.

/end awkward

[Hawk Sista]

Thanks for the birthday wishes and compliments, my comrades.......... I wasn't fishin' for compliments and birthday wishes with this thread, I swear. I was just excited like a 5 year old on Christmas morning about a package arriving on my doorstep from Hawk HQ and that Pete was told who I am, how rabid a fan I am and what I am currently battling. I guess it is the 48 year old version of Make-a-wish. Additionally, now I am excited that I figured out that if I reduce the size of a photo - I can:
1) upload photos to share with you, and
2) finally have an avatar after 5 months.

And strange as it is FC, I've been getting some of that reaction with the whole bald thing...... though now that I am losing my eyebrows and eyelashes, it's a WHOLE lot less sexy - I am really starting to look more like a cancer patient (yes, I know I am one - it's just I don't see myself that way). I realize it this is all rather temporary, but I have always prided myself on not being superficial or vain about looks.............but this not having eyelashes BS is getting way old and I can quit patting myself on the back as I am as ego-driven as everyone else. We all wanna look nice (though the definition of nice is different to different people). Again - I know other people have it way worse than I do, I know my prognosis is excellent and I have lots to look forward to...BUT it is funky to get the stares at the grocery store, to have random people blessing me at the hardware store, Postal workers cocking their head to the side and asking how I am, or little old ladies literally grabbing my arm to help me. I know everyone means well, I just don' see myself as someone who needs help, pity, that kind of attention etc...

As for my Pete picture, I aim to frame it and hang it up. Here's my MJ evidence

[Irish Greg 2.0]

That's awesome, Sis!

[Hawk Sista]

Indeed it is, OBS....indeed it is. Thanks again all. HI Greg - I hope you are well. MAS