Martin Gumucio

It has been a couple of rough weeks at the Gumucio Bergström house. We are all fine but for some reason the kids have been starting to sleep less again and waking up more during the night. The sequence about insomnia in “Fight Club” springs to mind. Where every day without sleep turns into a photocopy .. of a photocopy .. etc.

Simon is learning some new tricks, his vocabulary now includes the following phrases: “No”, “No I dont want” “No I want to walk myself” and so on with variations. We have never so far heard him say “Yes”. In Simons lingo the word for Water and Cold is the same thing. So he can point of puddles and yell “Cold! Cold!” meaning he has spotted water and we should investigate further at once.

Aron revealed his secret identity to us yesterday. Quite unexepectedly it turned out he really is spiderman, and now that we are in the know he runs around the apartment in his spiderman outfit quite freely. Some wall scaling and much jumping has been attempted.

Thats it for this time, on a geeky note it can be added that i’m typing this to you on a bluetooth keyboard connected to the ipad. Fun

ABC-nytt, our supplier of local televised news in Uppsala recently aired this feature. The topic is how well service-based-companies are doing here at the moment, and to illustrate their point some of Uppsala finest got to show themselves and their offices. Namely brother Gabriel! Way to go!

Fair warning: neither this post or the video attached to it are for the faint of heart. You have been warned kids!

Just like all male members of the Gumucio family I was born with Cataracts (Gråstarr) in my both eyes. This has been fine for most of my life, since its in my case was very mild. The diagnosis i got as a child was that I would not have to get surgery until the age of 40.

And now, the moment is upon me! At the tender age of 35 i find myself seeing really really bad. The deterioration started about a year ago and my recent visit to the eye specialist confirmed it. I have about 50% vision on both eyes, and will be getting surgery sometime probably during the next month.

As a positive thinking person, i cannot help but notice several advantages to my current situation:

The people that you try to avoid, you never have to pretend you don’t see them when you meet them on the street, because you don’t see them. This happens to me all the time, and I’m pretty sure that some people in our apartment buildlng have me pegged as some kind of uptight snob that ignore them. This of course is a half-truth at best.

You make new friends. As you wave like an idiot to complete strangers, trying to avoid  situations like the one described above, you are bound to be waving at people that only have a distant similarity to your personal friends or acquaintances. This also happens to me all the time, three times in fact during just past weekend. You can also factor in that I have an exceptional memory for faces, and also frequently say hello to people I haven’t met since kindergarten. They don’t wave back.  Uptight snobs!

The excerpt above is from my long long list of drafts for this blog, I must have written it before my surgery, the text for which is in another draft as it were. Read on for the full story..

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December was such a cramped month, that I haven’t had the chance to blog about this before. The 13:th of december 2009, we baptised Simon Alexander Gumucio Bergström!

Three babies were getting baptised during the ceremony that took place in the church of Helga Trefaldighet, a sweet little chapel from the 11:th century.  Aron was a champion and sat with us at the front the whole time without making a scene. December is a difficult month, and Simon can count many relatives that live outside of town, but to our great joy almost everybody could attend,  making this a great party.

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