Hello, hello. I am your host, Mary. Welcome back to Prologs. This is the 10th episode, you guys, and this feels like a big milestone to me. I don't know why. And I have changed my mind on what I wanted this episode to be about like 10 times in the past day. And I eventually landed on today's topic because it just has been on my mind in my personal life lately.

But the 10th episode feels like a special one to me. So if you've been here since the beginning,

I'm so happy and so grateful that you have been. And if you're just tuning in, you're lucky

because I feel like I'm starting to get into the swing of things now. And so you miss the awkward first few episodes where I was figuring out how my microphone worked.

Anyway, hi guys, welcome back.

So the last two episodes were pre-recorded because I was out of town for 10 days.

So this is the first time in two weeks that I'm sitting down to record this week's episode,

and it feels nice.

I feel like it's way easier to give you guys up-to-date life updates and book favorites

and everything like that when I'm filming more in the moment.

So that's a helpful lesson to learn.

But here we are.

I'm recording this at 9 o'clock at night.

So if I sound really tired,

I am pretty tired. I know that's not crazy late, but for me it feels late. I love to be in bed

for a long time before I actually fall asleep. Like, first of all, my bed is my favorite place

to be in this entire world. Like, I've always been a bed girl, and I just feel like I have the most

comfortable, most cozy bed out of anyone ever. I'm so in love with my bed. I think about it. Every time

I'm away from home, I think about how much I can't wait to get back to my specific bed, not just

because it's someplace that's familiar to me and feel safe to me,

but because I truly feel like my bed is the best in the world. So I like to be in bed for a long

time before I fall asleep because it's my favorite place to relax. And after I record this,

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