Things I've Lost Lately

I need to start this by saying I don't live in a ginormous McMansion house. I love my house, it's perfect for us and it's just the size we, as Empty Nesters, need. But it's not the kind of house where there are multiple places things can hide. My kitchen is especially space-challenged.  I am the one who puts away the dishes the majority of times and I know where everything goes -- pretty much where everything HAS to go in order for things to fit.

I have three 9x13 Pyrex baking dishes.  One of them comes with a special cover and a heat/cold pack and an insulated carrying case.  I keep it, and the accessories, in the bottom of my hutch. It's not for daily use, it's the dish I use to bring food to friends or to church, etc.  The two "everyday" Pyrex dishes -- that I use all the time -- I keep under the cabinet with all my other pots and pans.  Right now, there is only one under there.  Where is the other one?  Who knows!  How can a 9x13 Pyrex casserole dish just disappear??  I know I didn't take it somewhere, because I don't use my "everyday" casserole dishes for that, and my portable one, with the carry case and the insert, is where it should be.  Somewhere, in this house, is a 9x13 Pyrex casserole dish -- and that's a BIG thing you'd think I'd not lose. 

Our silverware is another mystery. We have a set of everyday silverware. We have eight knives, eight forks, eight tablespoons, eight dessert forks and ... three teaspoons. THREE. Actually, it's worse. A while back, I went to Walmart and bought a pack of eight teaspoons. Just teaspoons. They don't exactly match the rest of our silverware, but it's close enough. We are now down to three. So the original eight have turned up missing as have five of the replacements. And it's only the small spoons. What?  Why?  Where are my spoons going?  And why don't the knives or forks ever go missing?

I have five chopping boards. One is HUGE, and glass, and I hate it. We got it because it was large enough to hold an entire turkey or a big roast, but the board doesn't have a lipped edge, so if you use it to carve meat, the juices run off the edge and puddle on the counter. And it won't fit in the dishwasher so you have to hand wash it, but it barely fits in the sink.  That hideous, hateful chopping board I can find easily. I also have an itty-bitty chopping board that barely is bigger than an onion.  Useless, in my opinion, but I know where that one is (above the oven, right next to Boardzilla).  The other three are the perfect size, perfect weight, perfect design ... and I can find one.  One!  Now, seriously, how can two chopping boards disappear?  I've looked in every cabinet, closet, drawer, shelf -- my kitchen isn't that big!  Where ARE they?  And why is it the perfect boards are missing, yet Boardzilla is still holding court in my cabinet, mocking me every time I open the cabinet door?

I have one necklace I wear daily, one bracelet and one pair of earrings.  That's it, that's the only jewelry I wear on a daily basis (excluding my wedding ring that I never take off).  I always take off the bracelet, necklace and earrings and put them, all together, in a little dish I keep on my nightstand (ok, it's an ashtray I stole from a hotel, back in the day when hotels had ashtrays LOL, but it was a fancy hotel and it's a nice ashtray!).  I do that every night. A week ago or so, the necklace wasn't there.  My bracelet and earrings were, but no necklace.  I tore the house apart -- looked behind everything, under everything -- I've had my husband look ... it's gone. 

Maybe it's partying with my Pyrex baking dish and my teaspoons. 

The necklace I can understand. It's small, it has probably fallen done behind something or underneath something ... jewelry is easy to misplace. But a 9x13 baking dish?  Two chopping boards?  13 teaspoons?  Those didn't fall behind my nightstand.  That defies my understanding.

I don't even mind so much the big stuff, I can easily replace the spoons, the baking dish, the chopping boards. The necklace, tho, that I do grieve. It was a gift from my daughter and I've worn it every day for years and years. I still look for that, daily, because I desperately want to find it. 

I just don't know how things -- BIG things, odd things -- go missing.  

This rate, I'm going to have to add "my sanity / my mind" to Things I've Lost Lately.  

If anyone wants to come over and help me look for a missing necklace, I'd be glad to thank you with a gift of The Worlds Largest and Most Useless Chopping Board.  That monstrosity refuses to get lost.  

Just don't ask for a spoon with which to stir your coffee.  I only have three, and they are probably all in the dishwasher. At least I know where my dishwasher is -- for now, at least LOL!