How do you plan on celebrating your first real...

[Flynn]

job post training?

A party? Not divorcing doc spouse? A gift?

I am curious and looking for ideas. I'm not sure how I feel about all of this.

We haven't yet. I think we're waiting until we sell the stinking house in Cleveland.

****It doesn't really stink at all. If anyone is looking for a GREAT house on the east side, please PM me. It's a wonderful house - I'm just sick of paying 2 mortages.************

[Phoebe]

I wouldn's say we had a specific celebration, but we were elated to have a nice home, a working automobile (had to donate the other one to charity) and our daughter was born two months after moving. I think the big relief was knowing we wouldn't have to accrue any more debt.

Have fun deciding how to celebrate! You deserve it!

Jennifer

[spotty_dog]

****It doesn't really stink at all. If anyone is looking for a GREAT house on the east side, please PM me. It's a wonderful house - I'm just sick of paying 2 mortages.************

As of last reckoning, MetroHealth was no. 12 on our tentative ROL. Since statistically we have an excellent chance of matching in the top 3 to 5, it's a long shot but on the off chance we match here, if you're still on the market in March (and I am sending you all my positive energy to hope that it's NOT!) we'll be in touch.

[JaneDoe]

We plan to take a vacation to Hawaii in the winter after DH starts his job. Other than that, simply moving back to Oregon will be celebration enough for us!!!

[mommax3]

We didn't really do anything to celebrate the end of residency, since DH had a military committment and "big bucks" weren't really in the picture. I don't really feel like we celebrated when he left the military, either, but we did buy a nice house. We are more focused on paying off our debt as fast as we can!

Sally

[Vishenka69]

The end of residency will also coinside with DH's 30th birthday, so I'm sure he'll get something VERY big. I'm thinking of a new car or a ridiculously expensive watch (he's been drooling over both for years now). As for me, I've been drooling over Manolos and Jimmy Choos for far too long and plan on getting at least a pair of each. I'm reserving the right to a bigger present 6 months later for my 30th birthday.

I am getting a whole new wardrobe from Ann Taylor, buying out a shoe store, stocking up at VS and getting a REALLY nice haircut.

Oh, was this supposed to be about DH?

[DCJenn]

I'd rather celebrate MY return to the working world. Not that I'm not enamoured of this SAHM lifestyle, but I'd love to get my brain functioning at something other than colors and shapes.

Plus, once I get back in to the professional world that I know and love and miss desperately, we'll once again have the money to blow on things like $800 dinners and season tickets to Broadway shows. (God, third year of residency was FUN!!! We saw every stinking concert and theater production and went to every single fantastic San Antonio restaurant.)

This time though, I need a cadre of good babysitters and Nikolai better learn to like going to shows!

Jenn

as for my beloved? I bought him a fab watch already and he bought himself the M3 so he's done.

[SueC]

Nada.
Well, actually we did have a party to celebrate dh finishing and my birthday combined. Mostly an excuse to have a bunch of people over for a cookout and drinks. We totally didn't want or expect gifts but a handful of people actually gave us some gift cards, alcohol, or some other small token.
As far as spending money, we did kind of go nuts the first month eating out and buying stuff like clothes we couldn't previously afford, and then we couldn't pay the actual bills and bounced a few checks.