If she had the proper words to say,

There will have to be lots of happy moments in the next month or so. I'm going to need them as we head into the later part of February. You see, I'm losing two of my lifelines at the same time:

1) Philip will be leaving for Iraq in the last half of the month (yes, sooner than we'd been told originally - who's surprised here?), and he'll be gone until at least October.
2) Annie's moving to Tennessee at the end of the month.

It's really hard not to think of either of these two events several times each day. I already told some folks at Runza - both jokingly and not - that I'm not going to be the best person to be around, come the end of February.

*sigh*