Living The Nightlife

Rick is a light sleeper. Any time I roll over, move, cough, sneeze, sniffle, or blink, it wakes him up. I try my hardest to not move at all, but sometimes I just really need to breathe. Last night as I got into bed it woke him up and he gave me the look that says "I'm about to say something really weird that I won't remember in the morning."

"Where is the other blanket?" He asked while he was laying on top of the sheet and the blanket.

"What other blanket?"

"Don't we normally have more blankets than this? There should be another one between the sheet and the blanket."

"What?"

And then he was gone. It takes me a lot longer than him to fall asleep, so I laid there playing on my phone for a while. When I was done I put my phone away and rolled over. He shifted and gave me the same look as before.

"Don't we have more blankets than this?"

"Nope."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, because it's July and we live in Tucson and so I'm positive we don't have any more blankets."

"Did we used to have more blankets?"

"We had a different blanket when we lived in Utah. The thick one. We got this new bedspread when we moved here, remember?"

"But what about the blanket that you sign?"

By this time, he was fully awake, and I was more confused than ever.

"What?"

"It's like a blanket....but you can like take it to work with you. Where is the blanket that you used to take to work with you?"

"I never took a blanket to work with me. Do you take a blanket to work with you?"

"Yeah, the signed one."

"Signed as in like...written on?"

"Yeah, you like write all of your notes on it and then take it to work with you and it helps you remember what to do."

"You mean like a note pad?"

"No it's the blanket that you sign and it's supposed to go between the sheet and the other blanket."

"Do you hear yourself right now?"

"I know, I know, it sounds weird...but it's so real."

This morning I asked him if he remembered our conversation from last night. He starred off into the distance for a few minutes before he whispered "the blanket....it's so real."

He is still insisting that we are missing a 3rd blanket from our bed. He really misses that nonexistent blanket. Not sure how we're gonna settle this one.