What to do the first week of July in Riverside, California

Things to do when visiting family:
-Go to Disneyland for a day
-Ride Star Tours at least twice while there, along with Pirates and Thunder Mountain
-See Cars 2 with all the children
-Go out with old friends a few times
-Push the nieces on the swingset in the backyard
-Spend time with a german shepherd
-Talk about what's going on in Provo, Mesa, Nashville, or Riverside these days
-Go watch fireworks at a family friend's house
-Watch Mt Rubidoux catch on fire just a few minutes into the fireworks show
-Wait for a long time to see if the fireworks will start up again-- mostly wait for the fires to be under control
-Watch roman candles in the field close by catch the field on fire
-Get bitten by mosquitoes and have those bug bites swell up to ridiculous sizes
-Don't even open thesis related work
-Finish off that book almost a year after starting it
-Go to Costco
-Go to the Galleria at Tyler
-Go to Von's and Trader Joe's
-Eat lots
-Macerate some meyer lemons from the backyard
-Make shaker lemon pie
-Make world peace cookies (aka chocolate korova?)
-Bring a loaf of avocado pound cake in suitcase to share with family, while leaving a dozen muffins for the roommates
-Text people a lot when bored
-Watch Harry Potter 1 with the nephew who had just finished the book a few days earlier
-Play the piano, mostly when no one's home
-Eat thrifty's ice cream sandwiches
-Let a niece be entertained endlessly by emoticons on gchat (the blue crying face is the best)
-Play basketball with family or just solo
-Ride a bike with flat tires that are also completely deteriorating and think about buying new tires for it for the future, but never follow through on that
-Spend time with family, alone and together
-Sleep in most days
-Listen to awesome testimonies in church about how great and tall trees are

Merci

Things I Am Grateful For:
-Dogs
-Entertaining movies
-Good movies
-Good food
-Good family
-Sufficient time to procrastinate
-The time to go home for a weekend in the middle of a semester
-Critical theory
-Humor
-Things/people that/who are funny without knowing it
-Ice cream
-Dark chocolate
-Asparagus
-Salmon
-In-N-Out
-France (the country)
-J Crew
-Warm clothes in winter
-Dentists who fix bad teeth as best as they can
-Doctors
-Good eyeglasses
-Jewelry
-Watches
-Cell phones
-Arguments about stupid things (how else would I pass my time?)
-Music
-When dogs have those dreams where they're chasing something and their legs twitch like crazy
-Papers that are challenging (but worth the effort)

Christmas Break

Things That Are Awesome:
-Drifting
-Dogs
-Cats (to a lesser degree than dogs)
-Academia
-Europe
-Asia
-Books (excluding Twilight, obviously)
-Good Music
-Silence
-Good meals
-Dark chocolate
-Good friends
-Being content
-Good teas (I really like Twining's Orange Tea right now)

Things That Suck:
-Dirt/litter/trash
-Bad meals
-Bad friends (frenemies)
-Bad internet connections
-That overly full feeling after a large meal
-Soda (seriously, it tastes kind of good and that's where the good in soda ends)
-Realizing something you thought is/would be meaningful is actually empty
-Bad grades
-Not being content