Yeah Laura, y'know one of my daughters are very quick to slap the "manic" brand on me, if I so much as lose my temper; so does that mean that just by virtue of being diagnosed as bipolar, I am less allowed to do that than a "normal" person?
Here is my feeling. It is what it is, and I am who I am. I often have time to sit on my stoop in summer, and if you watched the peculiarities of some so-called "normal" people....well they make me feel pretty normal myself lol!
Don't let other people slap that label on you. If you are in control of yourself, and not doing anything completely bizarre and insane (i.e. entering into a manic episode), then I would just accept myself and my little oddities as they are.
My therapist told me that bipolar people can be completely free of symptoms for many years; some with medication, and even some without. I happen to be on meds, but was completely functional, normal and productive without them for 13 months as well. So don't worry too much about this; sounds to me that you are just as normal as the next person; except that you do happen to be bipolar.