Oh the Irony

(by michelle)
Time for something a little less melancholy, don't you think?

Now that we are rounding the bend on yet another move I have to laugh at the irony my nomadic life is faced with (the laugh happens after a big gulp, scream, sigh, cry, whine and wail).

Take this truck for instance.

This was parked in front of my driveway last week. Isn't it a nice, roomy truck? I would like to have a truck of this size to move all my belongings. There would be no need to stress if everything could fit. Everything would fit in this truck. I would also like a nice driver like this truck has. Then I could drive a car and my husband could drive a car. No need to tow a car. We could just each take a car and the nice truck driver could drive our belongings wherever needed.

Alas, I don't have a big truck or a nice driver to move me. Instead, I had this nice truck and driver drop off goods. Lots of them. I am afraid to take a picture of how much stuff he dropped off for fear of the following:

1. We'd be the laughing stock of the country. Or at least the blogosphere.
2. If we were faced with a disaster our lives would be in danger if our neighbors knew all that we had

Let me explain further. Despite the fact that where we are currently living is very temporary, and that we are soon moving to Chicago which will also be temporary, for some strange reason the food storage slash be prepared bug has bitten my husband. Very badly.

This is how bad: On one of Kyle's recruiting trips to Utah, he decided to purchase an insane amount of food and other necessities to bulk our currently lacking food storage from Shelf Reliance. He purchased so much stuff that it had to be delieved by that giant truck pictured above.

This puts me in a pickle. While I am grateful Kyle has agreed that we need to be more prepared, and has gone further than just worry and talk about it, we now are presented with where do we store it question? We do not have a basement, nor will we have a basement in Chicago during our temporary residence. So this food will be stored in a location far from where we are living for a few months. Should we need this food storage between April and August we will be out of luck. Which then leads me to the question, why buy now instead of at the end of the summer? Who knows.

To justify this we can hope the economy sinks even deeper and wait for inflation to set in. Food prices will rise and we will have gotten a heck of a deal on food.

Or things can stay stagnant-- not really get better or worse and come August we'll be settled in homestead #3 for the year and have a place to store and use our food storage not too far from the kitchen. We will have paid not only to transport our food twice, but also store it while we are away.

All I can do is laugh.

On a less sarcastic note, we are very impressed with Shelf Reliance. They have fabulous customer service and sat with Kyle and helped him map out what we needed. Though I haven't tasted or tested anything except for my hand powered wheat/rice/other grain grinder, I'm pleased with it all and give the place two very enthusiastic thumbs up. Come September I can give you more in-depth reviews.