Happy birthday, Redytrk!
I can empathize with the happy/sad dichotomy, having 11/22 as a birthday. (For those too young to remember, that's the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.) I was a mite too young to understand exactly why everyone on the planet (it seemed) was crying in front of the tv all day, all I knew in 1963 was that my birthday was a happy day for nobody.
Now that no one cries over it anymore, I don't care to acknowledge the fact that I'm another year older...aren't we humans a perverse bunch?