Tick Tick Tick… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand… Tick
I FOUND IT! My watch was not flushed down the toilet around a year ago as I had suspected. Caleb, when you read this years from now, I’m sorry I assumed you had flushed it. You did throw my keys in the toilet back then… so I had some foundation for my assumption.
So here’s the story. We moved the old hide-a-bed couch (the most uncomfortable thing you’ve ever sat on) into the study in anticipation of bringing the HUGE leather couch back from my parents. We had stored that one at their house because it makes the living room feel even narrower than it already is which is not a good thing when you are thinking about selling your house. Did I mention it’s HUGE! Ends up that we had a few days were there was no couch in the living room, and I would sit on the floor (where a couch used to be) so Heather could sit in the comfy chair… chivalry in action 
At the end of one evening, I looked over to the side table and the container under it. Every time I had looked for my watch in the past, I always looked in the side table drawer, but I realized I had never looked in the container. I pulled it out and there were several things we had been missing… including my watch. It’s less than 2 years old and the battery is already dead, but I now have my watch again. I can only assume that I went on a cleaning spree a year ago, and by cleaning spree I mean stacking everything in small piles and moving those piles around the house. You know… “guy cleaning”!