Penny Daily - Bio
The Wonder Years
I was brought up in Tallahassee, Florida by my divorced parents, Charlie, a taxidermist, and Mary, a bookkeeper. My mama pretty well took care of my sister and me when my dad took off. She and I shared a room until my dad died of cancer when I was 19. Not that those things made me laugh, loads of other things did, and that made me see that humor was gonna get me through near bout everything!
30 Something
I met my husband, Dave, of 16 years, at Florida A & M (FAMU) where we both were paying and working our way through school. I got my BS in Occupational therapy in 3 years instead of the 4 required. I'm pretty proud of that. Not because I am bragging, maybe a little, but because I want you to know I saved a years tuition. We settled in Jacksonville, Florida because, well, that's where Dave wanted to be. We struggled to have children and after surgeries we finally did and good God that was the best thing EVER! We had 3 Z's, Zoe,Zane and Zollie, all in a row. We owned our own staffing company and were saving, investing and working right close to 60 hours a week. Then, Medicare pulled the plug and we were out of work! So, I shoveled that shit to the side and went into real estate. I opened my own firm and was selling over $5 million a year. I also got my Auctioneer license on up in Missouri because I talk so much and so fast I figured I might as well volunteer my services to charity doing these or I might go to hell.Back to investing, saving and working.
We were millionaires by the time we were 30. We had a beautiful million dollar home, retirement, savings, and all the kids college pretty well covered. Funny part is that looking back I am not even sure we realized it because we were too consumed with getting it that we forgot about having it. Right at 30 I had colon cancer (totally removed so don't freak), a total hysterectomy, and kidney stone surgery. Within a couple years I had gone through septum, vocal cord, bladder, breast and parathyroid surgery too. If I knew then what I know now I would have totally blamed Tiger for all of it.
As The World Turns
Well, enough of all that positive energy. I gotta lay it all out there so here goes. After 13 years of marriage Dave left and wanted to "cash in" our marriage. I'm sure you can guess the various reasons people get divorced and just insert whatever reasons here. So...we hired big wig attorneys and spent our savings, got behind on all of our payments, ruined our credit and oh yeah-WE GOT BACK TOGETHER!!! Oops, I almost forgot, real estate went to the shit can.
Total we lost $430,000 in 6 months. It was like purgatory. The humiliation and self degradation was unbearable. Within a year we were over $1 million in debt as houses foreclosed, renters stopped paying, and stocks melted. We sold everything. I mean clothes, furniture, our home...everything we could. We were going to have to file for bankruptcy. I have smelt ass before, plenty of times, as a therapist. Even had ass on me a time or two in the nursing home but I never felt and smelled ass like this before in my life. This situation reeked shit from the get go.
Extreme MakeOver-Life Edition
I knew we were going to have to step out of our comfort zone. Away from my family, my friends (especially Shari), and just plain familiarity. Although I had a hundred jobs so far in my life I had never fulfilled the need to be the center of attention. I had given up on being a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader or a Solid Gold Dancer a couple of years back. But since I was 17 I could not let go of writing/creating an evening television show. I didn't know the details but I knew I wanted it to expose the manic/hyper mind I lived in. The one a lot of brave people live in. Up until now I never imagined that the actual world was ready for a "common sense assclown". I faced and dealt with most every drama in my own world with improv and humor and I think that is what most people are doing right now. I decided that instead of a "No Life" sticker on my forehead I would plant a "My Life" sticker and do what the hell I wanted to....as long as it didn't hurt anyone....
So..we moved here to Los Angeles. We co-habitate a 900 square foot apartment with an 8th of our furniture, laundry in the basement (bring your quarters) and ramen noodles once a week. We worry, we work, we love, and we laugh. I hope that you watch these episodes that exemplify my type of humor and vote for PlanetDaily to be a part of your universe. Many thanks!
Bye For Now, Penny "Anybody" Daily.
