squee!

ray and juliet get engaged pants!

guess what, pantsers?!!! i got to be part of a Major Milestone on friday night cos

RAY AND JULIET GOT ENGAGED!!!! HOLY PANTS!!!

and it was a top secret, super hush hush, hyper-planned surprise!!! known as “operation blue harvest” because ray is a huge nerd, the plan went down as follows:

1. meredith emailed several h-town ladies about having a girlie night in honor of my visit to houston.

2. erin suggested dinner at backstreet cafe, which is juliet & ray’s favorite restaurant.

3. ray called juliet on friday morning to say that he was about to fly to florida on a last minute work trip, something having to do with the shuttle launch* (*this is not as outlandish as it sounds, since ray works for NASA). he even played pre-recorded flight boarding noises from a previous plane trip in order to completely fool juliet (it worked, and yes, he was v. proud of himself).

4. erin, meredith, jill, alex, juliet and i arrived at backstreet and, through some superspy maneuvering, managed to get juliet to sit in the seat facing away from the door.

5. we ordered dinner and all tried to ACT NORMAL even though i thought my pants were going to explode from the dizzying combination of “OMG! impending proposal!” and “what if i accidentally use the verb ‘engage’ and TOTALLY GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY?!”

6. we ordered dessert, which is not only important with respect to the plan but also cos DESSERT!! i got these classy donuts, complete with a little coffee milkshake:

hey mr. donut man? who’s trying to kill you? IT’S ME SARAH PANTS!!!

anyway, um, proposal! right right. ok.

7. the waiters brought out every dessert except for juliet’s, and then ray, dressed as a waiter, appeared at the door (behind juliet). i was tasked with filming the Big Moment cos, duh, flossie is like permanently glued to my hand. in fact, as we joked later, it would have been suspicious if my camera *hadn’t* been out. esp. during dessert time.

8. and then !!!!!!!!! AND I GOT IT ALL ON VIDEO!!! WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN!!!!

I KNOW, RIGHT?!!!! how cute is juliet?!!!!!! she was so surprised!!!!

i think this may have been my finest moment as a videographer in the history of my life, rivaled only by the time i filmed josh and henri engaged (it’s ok! i can say it now!!!) in a communion wafer eating contest.

make sure you watch around the 2:25 mark, cos that’s when her shock begins to wear off and juliet starts asking questions like, “wait, so… you didn’t go to florida?!!”

in her own words: “i had to shut down and reboot!” and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why juliet and ray are a match made in heaven.

EEEEE!!!!!! THEY ARE SO HAPPY! I’M SO HAPPY!! happy pants all around!!!!!

and, the best part? juliet still got to eat the creme brulee she ordered. cos, i mean, a diamond ring is great and all, but when a girl wants dessert, she should get dessert.

hee hee, look at that smile on ray’s face. i would say that’s a look of pure unadultuerated joy, but in reality, it’s joy mixed with a healthy dose of engineer pride. as he told meredith, “i’ve planned for every contingency.” aw ray, i’m so glad that geeky boy scout i met back in 1997 is still alive and well! and also, that you found a lady who appreciates yr inner nerd, aka awesomeness!

we spent the rest of the evening celebrating, and i felt so grateful to share in the happiness of a dear friend with other dear friends!

yep, that one’s going on the fridge.

i also loved looking over at ray and juliet every so often and seeing this:

SQUEEMANIA you guys. squee freaking mania.

although the proposal was obvs the most exciting part of my weekend, here are a few other highlights:

a delicious brunch at pico’s, where meredith earned a $20 gift card for writing an essay about “why i love pico’s.” because she’s in the third grade.

a play date with emma g, the delightful offspring of mark and stasha (who are moving to minnesota, so i had to soak up as much crazy aunt sarah time as possible!).

cake and convo with meredith at empire cafe, which is the closest i can get to heaven without the whole death thing.

jill’s totally fabulous birthday party, featuring DIY sushi!!!

brunch at beaver’s, where i feasted upon the “dam good” breakfast…

(yes, that is shredded pork on eggs! because it is v. necessary!)

and “beaver balls,” deep-fried brownies with peanut butter, white chocolate and ice cream WHAAAAAAAAAAA

major props to jordan for recommending beaver’s to me. IT IS AWESOME AND I WILL BE BACK LIKE THE FREAKING TERMINATOR.

so yeah, not a shabby weekend. not. at. all.

congratulations, ray and juliet!! i love you guys!! also p.s. please have deep fried brownies at yr wedding KTHX!!!!

LINKS

not only is the new cass mccombs single totally dreamy, but this video is pretty much the greatest thing ever. i mean, besides ray’s proposal video.

ryan reynolds vs. betty white = FIERCE.

i found this list last week and realized that i actually *haven’t* seen everything on the internet. shocking!

my new dream job: rotus.

dear mandy moore: i can show you how to use kitchen knives, no problem. let’s be friends!!!!!!!

jezebel makes it easy to catch up on the best skits from will ferrell’s SNL gig over the weekend. my favorite is totally doll hands.

speaking of SNL, vulture compliled the top skits from season 34, and oh man, i forgot how much i love mark wahlberg talking to animals.

this link is also from last week but it made me smile so big, i had to share it with you guys cos AWWW! sasha, i know that feeling all too well.

vulture keeps us updated on the song of the summer power rankings. so far, i’m not impressed. come on, summer 2009, you can do better than this!

squee of the day: MINI FOOD BLOG OMGGGGGGG!!!!

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