A Literal Please With A Cherry On Top (a.k.a. I Need Your Help...Again!)

Hey, all!

I'm calling on you to help me out once again with something. Rather, it's not for me, but if you and your friends helped out, it certainly would make a couple of people happy!

Fellow Blogger Heather Rose over at Desperate for Something is betrothed to her beau, Charming, and she is in the middle of tearing her hairs out planning for the wedding. However, as a way to make said fateful day a bit more enticingly bearable, she has submitted a charming photograph to a contest to win $20,000 for a dream wedding. 

As someone who likes to see other people be happy, I beseech all of you with a literal please with a cherry on top to vote for her!

The link to the contest page and her entry is this one: http://www.wpoc.com/cc-common/contests/photo_contest.php?image_id=260853&id=177469 .

(After you scroll down the page, you will be required to do some pain-in-the-rear-jumping-through-hoops tasks of registering and confirming your e-mail address, but that's pretty much customary in this day and age of internet stuff. Oh, and if you happen to be outside of the U.S., know that I don't necessarily condone fibbing, but feel free to use 33175 as the Zip Code so you can pretend to be from Miami, please pass on the word to your Ameri-pals. We don't want any fraudulent votes. :P)

The best part is that you can vote daily!!! (Wink, wink, nudge-nudge, folks.)

And in case literal pleases with a cherry on top aren't your thing...well, then, do it for the Freshly-Baked Cartoon Cookies. Voting for Heather Rose will make the Cookies feel all happy and feel like throwing a party.

Don't let the Cartoon Party Cookies (and, by extension, their baker) down.

And while you're at it, check out Heather's blog. You'll find her encounters with TSA agents to be cringe-worthily hilarious!

**UPDATE**

While Heather Rose's photo was easily the most creative of the contest, it unfortunately didn't make it to the top ten of the voting rank. Which sucks because she should have totally won.

I thank all of you for your help in participating with the contest! I'm grateful for it. :)

Barb the French Bean

We Got An Award, Yo.

We here at Two Beans Or Not Two Beans have recently been granted The Versatile Blogger Award!

*cheers, fanfare, confetti and ticker tape parade*

As with most blogger awards, its acceptance comes with having to earn it by following as set of rules. So, without further ado, the procedures are as follows:

Numéro Un.
Nominate 15 bloggers for The Versatile Blogger Award.


These lucky fellows are none other than:


1. Invader Stu from Invading Holland. One of my (Barb) favorite blogs of ALL TIME. A fair warning, though: you may bust a gut laughing when you read about his hilarious cultural shock life in the lowlands.


2. Emily from Emily in the Glass. Emily writes beautifully about France and wines and takes awesome photography.

3. Seilann from Sand from a Distant Shore. Her blog is quite underground, so be sure to channel your inner hipster when you read it.

4. Neenuh over at Francey Pants. Her talented Minnesotan humor needs more exposure, folks.

5. Tricia at Confessions of a Recovering Cynic. She's going to publish a book soon!

6. Crazy Cris at Here, There and Everywhere. Her hiking journeys across Spain are simply gorgeous!

7. Joanna at Dehydration and Procrastination. Whenever she posts new cartoons, it is magical.

8. Ash from Ash-Matic Does Things. This new-comer is indeed up and coming with a blogging punch! His imaginative take on activities are hilarious and featured with cartoons.

9. Brandon and Bryan from A Beer for the Shower. Start reading their blog posts and cartoons and you won't stop until you've reached the very beginning of it...or have died from laughter.

10. Harley from 1., b., Platypus....Her various topics will keep you reading. Some will make you think and others will make you laugh (One of coffee bean's favorite reads).

11. Doublexuan from Whiny Pencil. He is an illustrator with some AMAZING illustrations. Check it out and be amazed!

12. Dave from Blogography. His cartoons are just too cute and he always has a good story to tell. He also has some nice pictures on his posts.

13. The person from Arguing with a Doughnut. Has crazy cartoons :D You will love it!

14. Amy from Geek with Curves. If you like all geeky things, like me, then you will simply love this blog. (Coffee bean especially loves all the good youtube videos!!)

15. The person from Ikea Hackers. Coffee bean loves all things from Ikea!! So she just couldn't help herself...

(To the award's recipients: even if you don't participate in these sort of posts, or have won it previously, just know that we do genuinely love your blogs and wanted to show some recognition!)

Numéro Deux.
In the same post, add The Versatile Blogger Award.

(Please take a moment to "ooh" and "ahh" at its glorious green splendor.)

Numéro Trois.

In the same post, thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.

That honor befalls upon none other than the lovely Anna Smith over at Universal Gibberish and Mik from Stylish Obsessions! Thank you so much!

Numéro Quatre.

In the same post, share seven completely random pieces of information about yourself.

Since there are two of us, we've decided to divide the Random Facts in half. Therefore, each fact will be evenly distributed by 3.5. You can read about these facts at the end of the rules list.

Numéro Cinq.
In the same post, include this set of rules.

Numéro Six.
Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination by posting a comment on each of their blogs.

Right. So, here are the Seven Random Facts about us, Coffee Bean and French Bean. We will also refer to ourselves in the third person because it will help distinguish who said what; please don't think we are pretentious like The Jerk Mido from Ocarina of Time.

Drumroll, please...

Uno.
French Bean and Coffee Bean met at the same high school, but due to the difference in their graduating years, they only ever shared one class together: yearbook.


Dos.
Coffee bean has a strange addiction to keys (i.e. key earrings, key necklaces, decorative keys etc...).


She has more key items somewhere. By the way, the earrings you see, she made them herself.

Tres.
If it weren't so detrimental to her health, French Bean would happily subsist on nothing but ice cream, café cubano, medianoche sandwiches and Stacy's "Simply Naked" Pita Chips.


But mostly ice cream.

Cuatro.
Hating the same routine and look, coffee bean changes her hair color/style every so often.

Cinco.
French Bean has a D.J. alter ego (who will be coming soon to a birthday blog post near you).

Seis.
 Being a social drinker, coffee bean is proud to say that she can chug beer and other alcoholic drinks.


coffee bean does have a picture of her chugging down beer, but she rather not show it. Instead she will show you a picture of this fruity drink.

Siete.
To prevent any psychological distress, French Bean's underwear somehow needs to (rather illogically) either complement or coordinate with her wardrobe.


Take, for instance, this photo of her wearing a frilly top with red flowers.

Even if you don't see it, chances are French Bean is sporting her red bra and panties to go with it.




We are so happy to have had such an award bestowed on our blog! Thanks once again from both of us!

Hanny the Coffee Bean and Barb the French Bean

Blogger Likes to Unnecessarily Annoy Me

A few weeks ago, I discovered the very wonderful and hilarious blog called Clay Baboons. Its blogger, the lovely Stephanie (who is decidedly NOT a robot), has made it a mission to rid blogs of comment word verification.

Being a mindful blogger myself, I delved into ridding comment word verification once and for all in my corner of the internet. The removal process itself is simple enough.

I scroll down to the "Settings" menu and I read the question:

To which I say:

So I click "no"...

...and then confirm a change in settings on the top right-hand corner.

This inevitably leaves me feeling triumphant and certain that instant commentfication (I am so coining that) will soon be available for all!

I couldn't be more incorrect.

Being the paranoid person I am, I refresh the page to see if it worked. I scroll down the "Settings" menu and see this:

That's right. The word verification changes weren't made. It still says "yes" when I clearly asked it to say "no."

Undeterred, I repeat the whole process, hoping that once and for all, comment word verification will be eliminated and become a mere memory.

I then re-refresh the page.

And see this.

So the process is repeated.

And repeated.

And repeated, with some considerably angrier clicking.

After I have re-re-re-re-re-refreshed the page, the result is the same.

There you have it. A real behind-the-scenes look at the ordeal I have been dealing with for weeks.

Let me say, dear readers, that if Two Beans or Not Two Beans still has word verification, it isn't because I hate you and couldn't care less about rectifying the problem so you could all have instant commentfication. It is because Blogger likes to unnecessarily annoy me. 

I apologize in advance if our blog still has comment word verification. Please believe me when I say that I am as equally frustrated about this as you are, if not even more so.

Barb the (highly disgruntled) French Bean

I NEED YOUR HELP (a.k.a., Freshly-Baked Cartoon Cookies)

I normally don't ask for much in this life (except to maybe go back to France), but I feel the need to insert a shameless plug humbly request something from you all.

What I will ask for is nothing too serious. In fact, if you do this, you will feel like a much better person. The kind who makes kitties purr in happiness when you stroke their warm, fluffy bellies.

My request is this: I ask that you take a few minutes and help Invader Stu out with a vote so his blog, Invading Holland, can win a Bloggie under "Best European Weblog" on the Twelfth Annual Weblog Awards.

Why should you vote for him?

1) 'Cause his blog is one of my absoloute favorite things on the internet, thus if one of my favorite things on the internet gets proper recognition, it will make me one happy little girl who will want to spread love, harmony and joy all over the world through freshly-baked cartoon cookies.

Mmm. Cookies...

2) 'Cause he's the official King of Holland (which has still yet to be disputed by the Royal Family).

And, simply put:

3) 'Cause he chronicles what it's like to live in a country that has a perplexing hard-to-learn language and equally perplexing customs, all with a good laugh and awesome cartoons. His blog freakin' deserves a Bloggie, people!

Apart from receiving such an honor as the Bloggie award, he will also earn 2,012 pennies, a.k.a. $20.12, which is approximately 15,27 Euros. That should finance him with enough funds to buy 6 jars of Speculoos, which are 3 jars more than what he would get in the States.

Again, please, please, a literal PLEASE with a cherry on top, vote for Invading Holland under "Best European Weblog" so it could win a Bloggie. (The link is embedded in there.)

Click it! Ya know ya want to... *waggles eyebrows*


Thanks so much!

Barb the French Bean

To Expand, or Not to Expand, That is the Question

As my last blog post mentioned, I have been testing out another blogging site. French and I have been trying to figure out if we should move this blog to the other site, or just use it to expand what we already have.

Do not get me wrong, we love blogger, but we also love what tumblr has to offer. It has been a very difficult choice, especially since we already have everything set up here, but tumblr seems to offer a bit more to our blogging needs.

So since we cannot decide if we should move or make a "Two Beans or Not Two Beans Part II blog", we have decided to ask you, our loyal readers, as to what you think we should do?

Should we move or expand?

Hanny the coffee bean