One Man's Trash...

...is my treasure! Yesterday, after having that delicious fish dinner, my husband and I went to Target to walk off the food. You heard me, to walk. We had to walk around the store and not stop. So if we wanted to see something, we had to go around the aisle several times. I'm pretty sure the security office was keeping a close eye on us. To make things worse, we found a ball that was guaranteed to bounce up to 75 feet. We could not believe it...so we tried it out. The ball bounced so high, we almost knocked down one of those foam ceiling covers in the store. Right next to a security camera! Yeah, we put the ball back in the bin and walked away!

Anyway! The point I'm trying to get to is this. My husband found a plush dragon and quickly pointed it out to me. I love dragons. I collect them, especially stuffed dragons because they're hard to find and usually expensive. Sure, you'll find hundreds of stuffed bears, cats, and dogs, but not dragons and I have about 20 of them. So he finds one and says, "Look! Dragon!" I grab it and carry it with me, looking for a scanner. It's the end of the month and we're a little low on cash, but for a dragon, I would definitely consider the expense. $10. Ten dollars is money I can use for a new pair of jeans (an entirely different story I am not willing to share here), so I kiss the dragon and put it on a shelf. He was not going home with me that night.

We went to Wal-Mart today and my husband says "Babe, look." I turn around and see the same dragon in his hands. "Aw, it's the dragon from yesterday." I notice we're in the aisle of abandoned toys. This aisle has old toys, toys that no one wanted to buy, or toys that some bratty child decided to destroy and is still sellable, but since it's missing parts of the package or contents, the price is reduced. The little blue dragon was one of these toys.

I squealed and took it. I saw the price and hugged the dragon. $4.00. "You're coming home with me!" Apparently, the kid (or adult. who knows, really?) ripped the package and stole the cd that went with this  3D pet. It's a game or collector's thing of some sort. I don't buy the stuffed animals to register and play with them online. I simply like the dragon, so I saved this little guy from the aisle of abandoned toys and now it's on my lap as I type this.

His name is Lucky. He's lucky that a dragon collector's husband noticed him and that the certain dragon collector was happy to say yes! It's a good day to be a dragon! Oh, and to top it off, we got a dragon figurine from that movie "How to Tame a Dragon." It's cute too, but not photographed here with Lucky.