The Road to 40 Day 7/365: Welcoming the weekend

by | May 17, 2025 | Strawberry-Filled Donuts

So the 79-page transcript is being dissected, but I think it’s far from done.

According to the timestamps, I’m at the 22-minute mark of the 1.5hr-interview so I feel like it’s still a long way to go. Though I do remember some 15-20 minutes of things I can omit from that, like the Avril Lavigne duet towards the end and some shared experiences.

With AI being a thing now, I feel like I can just pop it in with the right prompts and edit later on. However, from experience, AI sometimes decides on making things up like names and words if it doesn’t make sense to it. 

Besides, it was auto-transcribed, so it’s completely possible that the auto transcription had some misses even before I ask AI to clean it up. It might be more difficult to go back and find the verbatim quotes without the timestamp.

I’m not sure what would be more work for me, really, doing this manually or editing what AI will do. To avoid a lot of mistakes and potential mis-quotes, I’ll probably do it the old-fashioned way. 

I felt a bit dizzy at some point while doing this. Checked my blood pressure and it ready 114/70, which I read is normal, but probably on the low end. Not sure what caused it, but I feel like it’s anxiety catching up again. 

With the transcript staring me in the face and the daily things I needed to do, I my mind was probably overwhelmed by what I should finish first or if I could finish anything at all.

I hate being an inconvenience to people. It’s an irritating trait that I think I inherited from my mom. It’s not all that bad, but worrying about things too much and how it affects other people sometimes becomes a heavy burden for me to carry. 

It  sucks because I’ve always thought that I’m strong-willed and mentally tough. But whenever I fall into these holes from time to time, I would sometimes admit that I may not be cut out for corporate after all. 

After slowing things down a bit, I got my legs under me and my head on straight again. I picked up Vino for his second football training of the week. 

Initially, we wanted to have him practice once a week until he gets used to the team. But after one session, the coach said he was inclined to offer Vino a spot in the team, so we decided to just go with the two sessions per week.

After all, it’s time away from his tablet but doing something he loves.  

He’s having fun in the drills, but would drift off sometimes when coach is explaining something. I’d get frustrated, but literally everyone else in the team is like that. 

Personally, I think that Vino is their best goalkeeper. That’s just based on what I’ve seen from the team and how they have played over these past 4 sessions.

Last night, it was confirmed by a parent and his teammates. 

During their practice match, Vino was asked to switch teams and the other team, upon learning that they will have Vino as the goal keeper, all cheered like they won. 

They were all like “yay, we got a good keeper!” 

As we were going home, one of the parents and I got to talk a bit and she said that Vino was good as a keeper, and that the team really needs one because nobody knows what to do when they’re put in that spot. 

When we got home we had our regular visitors over. James said Steph already misses us, so we had to meet. 

While it’s totally possible that James is just messing with everyone, we’re always happy to have them around. Of course, I wasn’t able to cook this time around, but we had Five Guys burgers delivered to fill us up.

Even if we were together last week, we still had new stories to tell this time around that lasted all through midnight. 

It almost feels like forever that we’ve been talking about random things but last night revealed that there are always more to talk about, whether it’s about the past, the present, or the future. 

These are the kinds of friendships that we’ll always make time for, no matter where we are in the world.  

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