1. The living room. Not behind the book shelf, not stuck in a book, not in the piano, nor behind the piano, not on a chair, not stuck in couch cushion, not left in a shoe.
2. The kitchen. Not behind nor under the refrigerator. Not in the refrigerator. Not in the freezer. Not on the refrigerator. Not in any drawer or cabinet. Not in the sink. Not on the windowsill, not in the garbage. Not in a pot. Not in a pan. Not in, under or on the stove.
3. The computer desk. Not in the tangle of wires. Not in the junk drawer. Not on the chair.
4. The family room. Not on the tv. Not lost amid the dvds, not in the couch cushions, not under the couch. Not in the desk, not in the lamp.
5. The laundry room. Not under, in, or on the washing machine. Not in, under or on the dryer. Not in the cabinets. Not in that humongous pile of laundry that I went through TWICE checking each item of clothing closely. Not in the litter box. Yes, I checked. Not in the dog food. Not in the cat food.
6. The guest room. Not in the humongous pile of clean laundry that was waiting to be folded. I folded it and while I did I checked each and every article of clothing. Nope, not there. Not on the bed. Not in the drawers. Not in the linens. Not under the bed.
7. The master bedroom closet. Another humongous pile of laundry that I painstakingly went through twice - not there. Not on any shelf, not on the floor, not in the scrapbooking bin, not in any pockets, not in any baskets, not caught on any clothing.
8. The garbage bin. Yes, yes, we looked through all the garbage. There was a lot. It smelled really bad. There may have been maggots. No keys.
9. The bathrooms. Not in the toilest. Not behind the toilets. Not under the sinks; not in the sinks. Not in the medicine cabinets. Not in the garbage. Not in the bathtubs.
10. The pantry. Not in the cereal boxes, not with the brown sugar. Not on the floor with the sprouting potatoes. Not with the spices. Not with the plastic bags.
11. Outside. Not in the chicken coop, not on the trampoline, not under the trampoline. Not on the patio.
On the agenda for tomorrow: tearing apart the master bedroom, gutting the linen closet, clearing out the main medicine cabinet and then putting the house back together again.