Have You Ever?

I had a friend that was sent off to L.A. once for an employee training thing. The group took personality tests to discover what kind of person they were and how best to deal with the personalities of the others they worked with.

I don't need a weekend seminar to know I am a Pleaser.
I want to be liked and I will work very hard for your acceptance. It's sickening really.

For instance, music is one of my greatest passions. I feel lost without some sort of something playing throughout my house.

Once for my birthday, June 1998, the Hubby kidnapped me from Young Women's Camp and took me to Kansas City to see Michael Crawford sing. I was so happy to hear his melodic voice stroke the the beautiful words of Sir Andrew I thought I might wet my pants-- at least I think it was the music that had that effect, I was also 8 months pregnant.

When we moved to England and were forced to buy all new appliances and electrical stuff, a stereo system was last on the priority list. It was a year before I finally broke down and purchased a little portable cd player for my kitchen. When I popped in one of my cds, it was like chocolate melting on the tongue-- bliss. I realized then that maybe to lose my hearing would be the worse thing that could ever happen to me.

• Have you ever considered which of the five (you maybe have six ?) senses

you would prefer to loose if you had to give up one?

Anyway, (I digress. a lot.) you can imagine how I felt one day when I went to one of my favorite blogs to discover that she HATED music on blogs. Hated it. At first, I thought, "Well, turn it off" but then she listed several (very) valid reasons why it keeps her from going back. And she received LOTS of comments agreeing with her. My blog was not pleasing to her.

That's how my poll began. I wanted to know how YOU felt.

Several of you have commented in the past how much you like the playlist. A few of you do like I do with Kathryn's blog and just open it up to let the music play (I can't tell you how giddy comments like that make me feel).

• I work hard to coordinate songs with my posts, have you ever picked up on that?

Now that the poll is closed, I'm in a quandary. Although only 2 people felt I should "get rid of it now", 3 said they "tolerate it". That's five people I'm not pleasing.

I considered changing it so that you could turn it on when you stopped by, but flip, I work so hard coordinating my stuff. And really, have you ever gone to someone's blog (and actually like music to read by) and turned their playlist on?

Have you ever:

• Changed something about your blog to accommodate your readers? (I got rid of my word verification for a sweet, dyslexic blogger).

• Reinvented your writing style/blog since you began blogging?

• Inadvertently left a passion behind, or neglected it for a time?

• Picked up on the clues scattered throughout this post?

Feel free to answer any of these in a comment here or a post on your blog-- just let me know so that I can come by to read it (I have two kids home with a flu bug, so my reading has been limited).