Phlegm Party

I'm so sick right now.
Yesterday, I had a scratchy throat and a bit of a cough.
This morning, I woke up with a fever, with body aches, head aches, and a wicked cough. My chest hurts like crazy, and I'm coughing up gross stuff.
I took the day off work. I hate doing that. I don't have many sick days left, and it seems like people never take time off at my work. I work with a lot of people in law enforcement, and I already feel weak/second-class around them due to that whole "blue wall" thing. I'm civilian. I feel like I'm weak, or not dedicated, or something like that. I have a few chronic health issues, which I'll eventually discuss here, and I need sick time for appointments and tests. When I actually get sick randomly, like I am now, it makes me feel like I'm almost wasting my sick time. Which is stupid, because that's what this time is for.
Eventually it will get to the point where I'm taking unpaid days, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I've done that with other jobs.

Anyhow. Hopefully this illness will sort itself out.

Bits

I'm in my late 20s.
I was born female and identify as a woman.
I'm Canadian. I've lived in Ontario all my life.
I live with a good guy (who I'll refer to here as my SO), a dog, and a cat.
I have a graduate degree.
I have worked full-time since I got out of university.

I fell apart when I was 13. I spent time in a psychiatric hospital, where I was diagnosed bipolar a month before I turned 14.

Since my diagnosis, I have only spent about 2 years without being on some sort of antidepressant or mood stabilizer.

While I don't give medication much credit for any success I've had in life, I believe it has helped at times.

Part of my motivation for starting this blog was to document my work coming off antidepressants, hopefully for the rest of my days.

Set up

I've been at this point before a few times in my life. I start up a new blog. I have hope it will develop into something worthwhile. I don't know how to define "worthwhile" right now, but I'm sure it will become apparent eventually. 

I've spent about an hour now trying to find a template/design I like. I have never worked with blogger, but have used so many other blogging platforms that this isn't a huge struggle. So far, blogger is cooperating. I want to try to keep the blog simple, to keep the focus on my contents, but I get distracted by setting up the visuals. 

I have a cute kitty on my desk.She likes to watch me type and follow my cursor across the screen. She keeps trying to drink from my glass of water.

I'm reading a book about L.Ron Hubbard. I'm not a scientologist, I just read books about people like him sometimes.

I just noticed I've started every paragraph with a sentence beginning with "I". Does that bode well for this blog?

Hi.

Here goes nothing.