Started my MacBook Pro and the Mac OS X Utilities screen shows up. Not sure what to do.

When I restarted my computer, it booted to the Mac OS X Utilities screen. I'm not sure what to do from here.

Odd. It apparently booted into Recovery Mode.
For good measure, choose Disk Utility, click on the Macintosh HD volume on the left and run Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions by clicking on the buttons. Then quit, restart and hold down the Option key prior to the startup chime. When a list of disk icons pops up, click on Macintosh and the arrow to boot from it.
If this happens again in the future, use AppleExpert's instructions for resetting the default boot volume.

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