Weekend review

I do my weekend review a little early because I work the weekend shift. We're at it Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so this a natural transition in my week. Anyway, I got a portion of my room cleaned. Lack the drive to do it all at once. Did not open a new brokerage account like I had wanted. Still need to do that. Didn't file my tax return yet. Though I have assembled a shopping list of what I'd like to be in my long term holdings. It's a roughly $30K shopping list right now and it'll be nice. It should take me roughly 17% closer to the red line, for a total of 19% or so. Umm, where is the green line again? I think that need stamp that on my desktop wall paper, or perhaps round it to something. Anyway, that'll be 10.4%. It makes things look so quick when I look at it like that, though I'd still need to get the $30K to buy all of it.
I've also tentatively scheduled a location scouting trip into the USA. I've got a friend there who I think will give me all the help he can relocating. However there is still a border there and it'll be pesky. I'm guessing E-2 might be the easiest visa for me to get, though I'm going to be very reluctant to empty my investment portfolio to focus on one thing. That'll make things take a little longer. I'll also need to bump my lines a bit to cover health insurance. Maybe I can take that trip to China while I wait for funds to build up.
Also for location scouting, it seems the bank has given me a little gift. I'll be surprised if this doesn't brutally murder the formatting...

                              Real            Housing            Retail
                              GDP             starts             sales

                                             Thousands

                         07    08    09    07    08    09    07    08    09
                         --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --
   NFLD.                9.0   0.5   1.0   2.6   2.5   2.0   9.5   5.5   2.0
   P.E.I                1.9   1.2   1.4   0.8   0.7   0.6   8.2   4.4   3.7
   N.S.                 2.4   2.5   2.8   4.8   4.6   4.0   4.0   4.7   6.5
   N.B.                 2.5   2.4   2.5   4.2   4.0   3.4   6.2   4.4   4.0
   QUE.                 2.1   1.1   2.2  48.6  47.1  40.0   4.4   4.1   4.4
   ONT.                 1.8   0.8   1.9  68.1  66.8  59.4   3.9   3.8   4.5
   MAN.                 3.5   2.8   2.9   5.7   5.6   4.5   9.5   8.1   7.6
   SASK.                4.6   3.6   3.2   6.0   6.1   4.5  12.7   9.0   8.0
   ALTA.                4.3   3.3   3.0  48.3  41.6  35.3   9.0   7.4   7.0
   B.C.                 3.1   2.3   2.8  39.2  37.2  30.5   7.1   6.2   7.5
   CANADA               2.7   1.6   2.3   228   216   184   5.8   5.1   5.5

                          Employment            CPI

                         07    08    09    07    08    09
                         --    --    --    --    --    --
   NFLD.                0.6   0.2   0.3   1.5   1.0   1.3
   P.E.I                1.0   0.5   0.2   1.8   1.3   1.6
   N.S.                 1.3   2.0   2.0   1.9   1.1   2.0
   N.B.                 2.1   1.9   0.9   1.9   1.2   1.7
   QUE.                 2.3   1.1   1.1   1.6   1.2   1.8
   ONT.                 1.6   0.9   1.0   1.8   1.4   1.8
   MAN.                 1.6   2.1   1.7   2.0   1.8   2.1
   SASK.                2.1   2.4   1.9   2.8   3.3   2.9
   ALTA.                4.7   2.2   1.8   5.0   2.9   2.8
   B.C.                 3.2   2.0   2.2   1.8   1.1   1.6
   CANADA               2.3   1.4   1.4   2.1   1.4   1.9

I've highlighted the two provinces in this country I've been seriously considering in purple. Green is one that I've had someone ask me to consider, possibly jokingly. Those last figures also highly the dangers of not building up enough money. If I've got a return of 6% on my fixed income investments, and inflation reaches say, 5%, which it was for Alberta in 2007, 5/6ths of my income needs to be reinvested to keep up with inflation and I only have a 1% return to cover my expenses. Dividends from common shares, however, are typically linked to corporate profits, which typically increase with inflation. Anyway, enough rambling, I need food, then food shopping. Adjusting for inflation though are for goals I set after I've cleared the yellow line and need to start setting new goals.