Having grown up with a perpetually messy room, I've always been good at finding lost objects. (Useful when you marry someone who always misplaces his things.) But my confidence was shaken when I lost my glasses.
I need my glasses to see far away, so I used to wear them a lot--watching TV, at lectures, or even at work to quickly read the titles on higher book shelves. But my glasses sometimes trigger my headaches, or if I have a headache they will make them worse. That's been the case since my headaches started in my 20s. As the headaches got worse, I wore them less and less (just as I progressed from wearing ponytails, to pigtails, to barettes, and now I can't wear even a bobby pin in my hair).
That summer I "remerched" my apartment, moving all sorts of things around, and around that time my glasses disappeared. So I assumed that I had accidentally packed them away in some box or other and would eventually come across them.
I've been searching for the darn things for almost two years... mostly so I can start watching foreign films again! But though it seems to me I've been through every box, nook, cranny in the apartment, they didn't show.
Buying a new pair isn't the end of the world as Fernando has insurance. But getting an eye exam is a bore, because my prescription rarely changes; and picking out glasses takes time; and I really liked my last pair; and they're not worn out or broken or out of fashion so there's no REASON to get new ones. But I was about to bite the bullet and make the trip to Lunetterie.
It finally occurred to me tonight that, in my assumption of the Apartment Remerch Theory, I overlooked the Classic Missing Item Areas. Areas I should have checked ages ago. Like jacket pockets. (I never put my glasses *away* -- they always went into backpack pockets or coat pockets.) So just now I went to the front closet and picked my way to the back, looking for any jackets I might now wear often. And came across my jean jacket, which I don't like the cut of. And there they were. In the pocket.
I'm writing a full, long posting about this because I am SOOOO excited. I HATE an unsolved mystery, and this one was driving me BANANAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to run out to the library and rent subtitled movies! I want to drive a car! I want to sit here and read the book titles on my shelves (though I know most of them by sight.)
But I've got one of my headaches lingering at the edge of the Tylenols w/ Codeine I've been taking... and I'm already listening to music under my headache-causing-headphones... so the glasses will have to wait.
I'm so excited! Ohhh it's the little things in life.
