G'day, family.
TM, you sound like you've had a busy, productive day. I hope work is without hitch for you today.
Jen, I hope you can get your wrapping done without too many interruptions.
We had a shopping day today, food mostly. I took mother in law & sister in law out to the mall. While there I spoke to easy child 2/difficult child 2 at her job. She said, "I think I had my drink spiked on Sunday night."
Turned out that she was at a Christmas party at a bar in the city (tourist hot spot) and the large group they were with was spread out, so it could have looked like she wasn't with anyone in particular. She remembers being slightly tipsy, then nothing at all until waking up in bed Monday morning. BF2 told her he almost had to carry her home, she had been throwing up a lot, security had to get her out of the toilets because she was raving and hallucinating about monsters. The top of her dress had lost a strap and she had been walking around with half her bra showing - all of this very unlike her.
She was still feeling sick so I took her to the hospital when her shift finished. Tonight I made her call the police, I also rang them to reinforce it. I was very annoyed with the police at first (at one station - our local cops were wonderful). The cop shop in easy child 2/difficult child 2's area were saying thing like, "It's no big deal, we can't do anything anyway."
I pointed out what the first cop shop had said to me - the bar where it happened will have CCTV of what happened, they may even have pictures of the drink being spiked. And they shouldn't be dismissive of the girl - she is a victim of assault and I said I wanted her treated with compassion and respect.
We were having dinner at mother in law's tonight, I was wishing I could go back to see easy child 2/difficult child 2 at her flat, to be with her. But she rang after the police had been, they had been very kind she said.
I was too agitated to sit still after dinner, I got busy and made a dozen mince pies. I'm feeling a bit calmer now, I need to get some sleep tonight so I can be busy tomorrow. I have some biscotti to bake (stage 1) and some more pastry for mince pies. And maybe some biscuits. Oh, and pickled octopus. I was going to do it tonight, but I was busy on the phone sorting things out for easy child 2/difficult child 2 with the cops.
As I said to easy child 2/difficult child 2 at the hospital, whoever tried to spike her drink lost an expensive dose of GHB with nothing to show for it (ie they didn't get the girl). If they hadn't used it on her, they might have had more success with someone else.
It worries me to know there are such nasty people in this world.
Enjoy your Tuesday, may it be happier than ours. Although I am very happy to know that easy child 2/difficult child 2 was not molested. She is still feeling very sick and it has caused her some problems with her regular medications. A blasted nuisance. Thankfully nothing more.
Marg