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Up and Down

Well it has been a week of ups and downs for me...and what better way to work through that than with a crossword puzzle... 

 On Saturday, my husband lost his wedding ring in the Russian River. We have acquired a metal detector and will be out searching for that this week - wish us luck! That was a down. 

 Then on Sunday, I attended Westwords - the Bay Area Crossword Tournament in its second year in Berkeley, CA.  Since I had not been training for it at all, my plan was to have a chill day with crosswords and friends by competing in the easier "Beach" division - and then I went and won. Congrats to the other winners, especially to Tyler Hinman for winning the "Mountain" division - may I hope to come close to that someday. This was definitely an up!

 And then this morning I found out I was laid off from my job, part of a re-org of our business technology team. I know I wasn't the only one impacted, but it was still a shock...and I am still figuring out what will be next. So with all that...please enjoy this puzzle, highlighting things that go up and down. Hopefully I will have one more up to report when we find Matt's missing wedding ring.





Created by Katja Brinck using PuzzleMe's crossword puzzle maker

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