I WISH I was making this stuff up!

This has been the LONGEST week ever. Will it ever end? Yesterday, I was on the brink of tears all day. I think I am just tired. So it didn't help when I awoke to the loudest bang against the back door last night about 3 am! I sat straight up in bed and thought "HOLY CRAP, SOMEONE IS BREAKING IN!". I begin to reach for my gun (hidden not so cleverly under my bed) when I hear the bang again and the doggie door go flying across the kitchen floor. By this time I am in full fledged panic mode...Mary Dell has jumped up in my bed and is hiding behind me. I am determined that this "intruder" will not get either one of us. Just as I am waiting/panicing for this person to come into my room...I hear a familiar crunching sound. Am I hearing this right?? Did the bad guy breaking into my house actually stop at the door for a cat food snack?!? Or could this just be an animal determined to have a midnight snack? When I finally realize that it is indeed a rather large ANIMAL in the kitchen, I calm down a bit....only to freak out again when it really sinks in, "HOLY CRAP, THERE IS A REALLY LARGE ANIMAL IN THE KITCHEN"!!! I decided to sneak in there to catch a peek. Of course, I stumbled and knocked into the bathroom door spooking the animal. It goes barrelling out the back door. I flip on ALL the lights in the house and secure the kitchen. I totally rigged the broken doggie door with a chair and every pot and pan that I have to weigh it down, then shut my bedroom door and bathroom door and secured those with chairs and weights. If this creature happened to break back in, it was NOT getting into my bedroom. Mary Dell and I were locked up tighter than Alcatraz! I actually don't think that I slept even one minute after that, but we were safe!
So as soon as the morning rolls around, I do what any sensible 30 year old "woman" would do...CALL DADDY. And this was his exact response, "Really, Krista, racoons are not that mean, they are actually kinda like pets". Seriously dad?!?!?!!? That does NOT make me feel better!hahaha SCARY!!! Then he came up with a great plan to screw a piece of plywood right into the door until I can get a new one. I like that plan B much better than the make the large creature a pet plan!!
And we are assuming the animal is indeed a racoon comma however I am very open to suggestions of what else it could be!!

The biggest Fraidy Cat ever...Mary Dell. This is how I left her this morning..still hiding in my bedroom.

The scene of the crime!

So when you are thinking that you are having a long week, at least you can say...well, I haven't pulled a gun on a racoon yet this week. So that's something.