What I want now

I want an accurate, reliable, lightening fast, not overly expensive over-the-counter children’s thermometer.  Ever since I have had kids, I have been searching for this one and haven’t been able to find it.  When temperatures are so important to determining treatment for children, especially infants, you would think the inventors of the world would go out of their way to improve the products available right into gold standard-ville, but, in my experience, you would be wrong.

I want a clapper for my iPhone.  You know, one of those devices you used to be able to attach to your keys and then you would clap when you lost them and they would beep or something?  Yes, like that, but for my phone.  I used to be able to use wheresmycellphone.com to call my phone when I was in the States but no such service exists here and I am constantly misplacing my phone and we have no landline (basically the norm here, not the quasi-rebellion against the Bells it is in the US).  I need either a leash or a tether or the equivalent of a clapper for my iPhone. 

I want to find some Otter Pops or their generic equivalent.  I know they are straight sugar and filled with all sorts of evil dyes and artificial flavorings and I absolutely do. Not. Care!  If someone appeared at my door with a box or a bag full, I would pay them whatever they asked.  When we first moved here, we found something similar and equally as appealing in a store and bought a few packages and the kids ate them and loved them and they tasted like home.  Then, when it got hotter, we thought we should pick up a few more packages but they were gone…never to return.  Who knew they were a fluke when we found them?  We were too new, too naïve to realize we should have bought them all then and stored them under our beds and carefully doled them out in pre-determined intervals to the boys throughout the hottest months and beyond.  And now they are gone.  And the homemade popsicles I have tried to substitute and the triangular British iced “lollies” and the strange Indian ice pops which all seem to contain white pepper for some unfathomable reason are just not cutting it with the troops.  And it’s a crying shame!

I want to install a camera on my car.  I think if I ever get into an accident, there is a small likelihood that it will be my fault and a high likelihood that the other driver will say it is no matter what, and I think I want to have another form of insurance.  It might not help, but it might, so it might be worth it.  A camera seems very Big Brother, I know, but maybe these are the times and places in which I now live!

I want never to have heard of scarlet fever!