A hand blanket

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I prefer sleeping on my side. At some point I noticed that when I’m on my left side, usually my right hand is by my stomach and my left hand is curled up near my chest. But when I’m on my right side, my left hand is usually by my stomach and my right arm is under the pillow and my right hand is at the corner of the bed. For some reason, that just feels … natural. I’ll go from side to side while I’m falling asleep, but I usually end up on my right side so that I’m facing a wall instead of a window. Normally that isn’t an issue, but it’s winter, meaning it can get a little chilly. There have been mornings I’ll wake up to find my right hand cold. I’ll put it under the blanket to warm it up and drift back to sleep, only to wake up again later with it cold again. When it was really cold, I balled up a thin blanket and put it by my pillow so that – if I got cold – I could throw it over myself without getting out from under the blankets. I remembered that the other night, so now I’m trying to train myself that whenever I turn to my right, I slip my hand under this blanket so it doesn’t get cold. So I have a blanket just for my hand. And before anyone asks why I don’t just wear a glove, nine times out of ten if I wear socks to bed they’re off when I wake up, so I doubt a glove would make it through the night.