It was here...or was it?

Do you know the nagging feeling of a half-memory and a half-delusion that you put something somewhere but you just can't find the place? I know that more than perfectly, since for the past few days I have been looking for something I really want to pack with me when I (finally) move to Helsinki. I bought this amazing black and white painting in Portobello Road, London in April. It had a bright red tree on the right and it looked so cool. However, it was just the canvas without frames and I have completely lost that roll. I promised to buy chocolate to whoever finds it but we haven't had any luck so far... It is one of the most annoying feelings ever, knowing it is somewhere here and you have a distant memory of it but you just can't find it. 

This mystery is a part of my current process which is to pack everything I want to take to Helsinki with me, to get rid of all the unnecessary things and to separate the stuff I want to save as a memory but have to leave behind for now. I have made amazingly good progress with this, I already have.. uhm, quite many boxes filled with bowls and kettles and shoes and books etc. I have found items the existence of which I didn't even remember and through some old letters I've found memories I had buried somewhere deep. However, I always thought I don't own that many things but flilling a box after another makes me reconsider. Especially since I haven't packed any of my clothes. And we will have to make it all fit in a car with 5 people. Luckily I don't take any furniture with me, I'll buy it from there so we won't be the hated car with a trailer slowing everyone down for hundreds of kilometers.

I am praying to find the painting. Yes, because it is a really nice painting but also because I have turned every place upside down and still no sight of it. I have one more place in mind (would be extremely weird if I found it there 'cause I.have.not.put.it.there.I.am.sure) but who knows, in this house anything can end up anywhere without a competent explanation.