Literally right in front of me. I can be looking directly at the item (and my eyesight is fine), pondering where it could be, and still require a too-long stretch of time to figure out I'm looking right at it. I've considered getting those beeper stickers for finding important items, but the list of what I don't want to lose track of on the daily is too long.

Once after travelling out of state, I realized I couldn't find my datebook, and among other things it held at the time 3 months worth of handwritten prescriptions from my pdoc. I'd only been with her 6 months or so and was worried she would think I was selling them on the street or something. (I'd seen her require other patients to file police reports before she'd issue new scrips to them.. headache.) Weird thing is, I'd looked at least 5 times in every fold of my carry-on before giving up and telling her about it. Found it in there a week later, just sitting there... it was as if some ghost had removed and then replaced it there to prank me (I live alone), it was so easy to find after having been so impossible.

I've at least become more accustomed to the fact that things aren't really lost as much as I perceive them to be, so that the panic lessens. But it still takes forever to find what is sometimes right in front of my eyes.

I really didn't think other people experienced this to the same degree.. you mean it's not just me? Thank you