Answer to my riddle

In case anyone actually tried to solve my puzzle/riddle from way back, here is the solution.
I was going for a 'rule of four' type of solution. The first sentence was meant to give you the cypher to solve the second sentence.

I've felt this way since The Day I Was Born.

The last part is capitalized as a hint. The solution is my birthday, which is september 1st, '81. Which can be written in day/month/year format to give 1/9/81. Or you could have just taken the year I was born which gives the same numers 1981.
So now you take these four numbers to solve the second sentence (1-9-8-1).

In the old days, the jumbo shrimp were named Ned.

You take the 1st letter, then the ninth letter after that, then the eighth letter after that, then the first letter after than, and so on (1-9-8-1-.
You end up with the letters: iambored
Hence the solution to my puzzle : I am bored (which also kind of answers the first sentence in a way)

Awesome eh!