From being sick to donuts to Vocaloid...

     So, I've finally gotten sick. I say 'finally' because normally I get a cold or at least a sore throat somewhere in October or November. But about a week ago I finally got a cold. Of course, somehow it went away within two days. I think. I'm sick again. Been naseous for the past three days. Can't really eat much without feeling sick, but today I at least kept down the food I ate.
     I can't eat toast. My mom's always telling us that if we're sick, we need to drink Ginger Ale/Canady Dry (not that we have any at this moment, so I'm stuck with water) and eat toast, Jell-O, and I think she mentioned somewhere before something about rice. Anyways, due to me eating dry toast for an entire day a few years ago because I couldn't eat anything else, I've gotten very sick of it, and while I can still stand the smell of it and eat it with butter on it and cheese, I can't eat it dry. And because my mom also says to avoid dairy products when we're sick, I can't have butter or cheese on it. So while I did have a slice of it yesterday, I'm not entirely sure how I managed to eat all of it. Or how it stayed down for so long...
     I've also been getting less sleep than normal. Which is probably to say just as much as normal. I wake up every two hours and feel like throwing up, but nothing happens. And yet somehow I'm still as energized today as I am any other day. Though it may help that I've been lying around in bed more than anything because doing anything else makes me feel naseous all over. And the smell of onions downstairs...I really don't like that.
     Yesterday we bought donuts. I got to pick mine out, but I still haven't eaten it. Probably stale by now, but still fine. Well, unless my little brother steals it (which isn't completely unlikely, considering how if you mention the word 'donut' in another room while he's asleep, he'll hear it and wake up and be right by you in a few seconds, that's how crazy he is over the stuff...and the donuts were his replacement birthday cake...) I also got a Milky Way chocolate. And today a Hershey's Air Delight. Haven't opened either yet, and probably won't open the Hershey's for a long time. I just don't like Hershey's chocolate. Probably because I'm too used to eating other chocolates like Cadbury's or some other better brand...and because we still have s'mores every now and then in the summer, and no matter how little Hershey's chocolate I put on it, it always seems like too much.
     Not sure where I'm going with all this. I think I'm just skipping around from one topic to another because I don't entirely feel 'awake'. Doomsday was supposed to be yesterday. And while the world didn't end or anything, there was the usual 'doomsday' yelling and fighting here at home. And the only good thing about being sick is that I actually had an actual excuse to sit in my room all day, instead of just wanting to sit here. That, and my nose is working perfectly fine. Somehow. I'm beginning to think that whatever sets of my allergies and makes me sneeze about fifty times a week (when it gets bad, anyways) is cancelled out when I get sick, and whatever is making me sick is somehow actually helping me. Not that I like it overall. I'd rather stick with a stuffy/runny nose and keep a box of tissues next to my bed.
     I've also been listening to next to no music for the past few days. And that's only strange because I normally listen to at least about five or six hours a day, if not way more. But since my earbuds broke a while back and I can't find the same kind anywhere (I can't stand the ones that go directly in your ear, even though I actually have a pair like that, because they always fall out and for whatever reason they make my ears itch) I've been using headphones. Or whatever you call the kind that have the band wrapping around your head. I actually prefer the ones that are like that except without the band and just have little hooks to go on your ears, but after having a few pairs break way too easily I'm sticking with what I have now. Actually, the headphones are pretty good quality, I think. Pretty good sound, and they've lasted for more than two years, I think, (awful with time...) though some of that might be helped because I bought them when I was still using those other kinds and rather got into the earbuds and put the headphones away for an emergency. And of course when the first of the two earbuds broke and I started using the second one, I forgot to replace my earbuds immediately. So now I'm just using my headphones. And while it has many advantages (don't need to wear a hat to protect my ears, among other things) it's also bad because I can't lie down and listen to music. I've never been the type of person to be able to lie on my back or stomach. I'm always on my side. And since I don't want the headphones to break, I don't wear them when I'm lying down. And since I've been lying down for most of the time, I haven't been able to listen to much. But at least I'm beginning to feel better now, even if it is only a little bit, so now I can at least listen to some music.
     And because I'm talking of music now, let me share some songs with you. First up would be eTeRNiTY by a Vocaloid called Oliver. For those who don't know what Vocaloids are, they're vocal androids. Not real people. And Oliver is one of the English ones, seeing as how many of them are actually Japanese, though there are a few Vocaloids in other languages as well. And while I normally don't like the English Vocaloids because of how bad they sound to me (probably from listening to way too much other music) this is one of the rather good ones. Maybe not entirely understandable in terms of pronunciation, but then most songs sung by actual people I don't understand entirely the first time either. But it's very catchy for me, and a lot of the time it's stuck in my head. So far it's the best song I've found. Followed by I Won't Let You Cry. I actually understand more of eTeRNiTY, but I Won't Let You Cry isn't that bad compared to other songs I've heard.
     Well, I was going to put a mini series of Vocaloid songs called Synchronicity here, since the third installment finally came out a few days ago, but after seeing the PV and the translation...I'm going to have to think about the entire story all over...it's a very detailed and pretty complex series.
     So, instead I'll put mErcy Yes, it's Japanese. So if you don't like listening to other language songs, don't bother. I'm not so familiar with Miki as a Vocaloid (not to be confused with Miku) but I found this song a few weeks back. It's the first song by Miki that I've listened to, and so far I'm impressed. Most Vocaloids I can clearly hear aren't humans. Not in the actual pronunciation, since there's almost always going to be cut off syllables in most Vocaloid songs, but in the actual tone of the voice. Gumi and IA sound pretty real too, but I think I'm beginning to like Miki more and more. And the funny thing is that Miki's avatar is portrayed a 'non-human' Vocaloid, made out of synthetic material, as compared to a lot of the other Vocaloids, who's avatars are supposed to be actual humans (not based off of real humans, just not androids or anything) And while the actual song itself isn't very 'happy', I do like the calming music and vocals before about 3:23. Not much of a fan of the actual music after that, but because I like the song so much I don't mind it so much.
     And because I was listening to this earlier and have it stuck in my head...again...here's Enclosure. Out of all the Vocaloids, I'm pretty sure that Len and Rin are my favorites. And this song...I listen to it, and suddenly I can't think straight about anything else because it just sounds amazing. At least it does with headphones. Not sure how it sounds with the computer speakers. And while some people might argue and say that Len sounds too much like a girl, I don't really care. In this song, they sound amazing. And because I never really pay attention to the English lyrics for most songs and only vaguely remember what the ones for these are, I can't really say much on that. All I know is that I really like this song.
     I could actually put up a lot more songs, but I think I'd rather stop here. Not only do I need to go and try to eat something again, I think that there are quite a few people who wouldn't really want to hear Japanese music. But hey, I don't mind it.