Does not suck

• The afternoon of shopping I just had with the boy child. He is awesome company. And he has fabulous taste in shoes (his own, I mean).
  
• Yankee Candle's gel car air freshener dealie in Home Sweet Home.
• The way the man who runs the sushi kiosk at my local sucky supermarket bows to me when I make my selection.
• The brown rice Philadelphia roll with smoked salmon from said kiosk.
  
• Mexican hot chocolate (just add a bit of cinnamon and vanilla to your usual recipe).
• Our summer family reading program, which has extended into fall and will continue through winter and beyond (just finished L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, which was the boy child's pick; tonight we start DH's pick, Piers Anthony's A Spell for Chameleon, and we are not discussing the fact that I sort of hate Piers Anthony because this is the DOES NOT SUCK list).
• Alba Passion Fruit Nectar lip balm.
• The new shortcut that opened up between our house and the mall.
• Our neighbors' long-haired miniature dachshund puppy, which is cute as hell. (Note to DH: we're still not getting one.)
• My google search on the phrase "wiener dog", which I hoped would lead to the correct spelling of dachshund because I was NOT guessing right AT ALL, and which also led me to this.
• Holiday-themed plastic zipper bags from the dollar store.
• Endangered Species Chocolate's black rhino bar.
  
• The fact that my brother and his wife are coming up for Thanksgiving this year! Woo!