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, and all of life's unexpected turns. Prologs is the best way to start

your week, so join me every Monday morning for a new entry into my digital journal.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to Prologs. It's the first episode in March, and I want to talk

about spring cleaning, and I'm really in the correct frame of mind to be doing this right now. It's a Saturday

morning. I slept for 10 hours last night accidentally. According to my aura ring, I had optimal

rest. 10 hours. And yet, despite having optimal rest, I feel really groggy. Does anybody feel like

sleeping too much has the exact opposite intended effect?

And instead of feeling more rested than ever before, you just kind of feel worse.

So I'm recording right now in sweatpants with my hair in the braid that I slept in on a very

rainy, gloomy Saturday morning.

It's kind of cozy, actually.

And I think it's perfect because for me,

spring has always been my least favorite season and the mood in the recording room right now.

And by recording room, I mean, at my desk. The mood is correct. Although I will say,

I feel like this is the first spring in a really long time that I'm not

absolutely dreading. Usually, like I said, spring is my least favorite season because I have

really bad seasonal allergies and the pollen around where I live is just horrendous. But then also,

it's when it starts getting hot, but it's not hot enough to go to pools or the beach or something.

Like I really, I don't like summer because I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I hate feeling

overheated. I hate when you're out with people trying to have a good time in the summertime,

but you know your hair is extremely frizzy and you're sweating through your clothes and you're overstimulated and like I hate that.

But summer's redeeming quality is that you can go to the beach or go to a pool or go do water sports

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