Welcome to Prologs. My name is Mary, and when I get overwhelmed and start feeling behind, I find it helpful to zoom out and remind myself that I am still in the beginning of my story. I'm sharing all of my life's chapters, mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, the chaos of being in my 20s, in all of life's unexpected turns.

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Hi, guys. Welcome back to Prologs.

The official Prologs debut of my move to Scotland.

I know you know this already.

If you follow me anywhere else, you've already seen me talk about this,

but this is the first prologs episode that I'm recording in Scotland. And I want to talk about the move and everything I've gone through and everything I've experienced. I really want to document

this moment in time and create this episode to be a little time capsule of my life right now

because I think I'll enjoy

looking back on it in a couple of months or a couple of years when enough time has passed that I

can giggle about all of these things and I'll be happy that I preserve them to reflect on later.

So today, I move to Scotland, literally what? I'd have not processed it at all. I don't know how long it's

going to take for me to process. I don't know how long it's going to take before I stop feeling

like I'm on some kind of crazy vacation. I don't know when it's going to sink in that this is

not just some temporary thing and that I just live here now, but it definitely has not sunk in

yet. I've been here for just over two

weeks at the point that you're hearing this. And the last prologues episode I've recorded was

the United States exit interview with Matthew, which you guys seemed to love. Thank you so much for all the

love on that. It was really nice. That was recorded about a week or so prior to my move. So it's

been three weeks since I've sat down to record an episode, which never usually happens. I feel like I always record weekly and I keep you guys up to date with everything going on in real time. And now I have a couple of weeks of things to reflect on and just share with you. And I know that I've talked about the move on Instagram and I have the moving vlogs and everything.

But with vlogging, I like to vlog in real time and I don't love to sit down in a vlog and just recap and rehash things that have happened in the past.

Like I like to be able to show you things in blogs and not just tell you narratives of things that have already happened or things that are going to happen.

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