I love birthdays, mine and other peoples.
I bet the only reason you hate birthdays is because you saw the episode of Blossom where she's in a really bad mood but you don't know why until the end and then you find out it's her birthday and she hates getting older.
Or maybe you are Blossom. I used to have the biggest crush on her. Every so often I google Mayim Bialik and find out how she's getting on.
My birthday is 29 October, in case you want to call me up. This puts it early in the university term (semester) here and in my first year lots of people came to my birthday who I didn't know. In fact, my whole group of friends was different by the end of the year so I organised another birthday in April. I nearly got away with it, especially since there was another Magnus in our year group... but I was rumbled at the last minute.
I like to make my birthday last a good week. Because I have about fifty different groups of friends, it's easy. So when I was working a 9-5 I'd have a Friday lunch with my colleagues, and I'll have a sunday lunch with my family, a Friday night out with my community friends and a couple of nights out in the week with other groups of friends.
Maybe I'll start celebrating half years too. My friend had a 10,000th day party recently.