Where is it?!

I can't find the moon.
No, really.
I can't find it.
Last night and the night before, I went outside to take out the garbage, and I looked all around the sky--it was nowhere.
There were hardly any clouds, and they were very thin and wispy, but I could see no moon behind them. My backyard was not lit up by moonlight like it was on Wednesday night.
It was just gone.
And it's not even the end of the cycle! It's the middle of the lunar month!
Where has it gone?
Where could it have possibly gone?