Rich Ornelas Journal Entry #1

This first entry is an introduction of who I am and why I am putting my thoughts in a journal.

My name is Richard Ornelas I was born Richard N Gillette II. Years ago family issues on my Dads part forced him out of the family. He gave up his rights and I was adopted by my step Dad thus the last name Ornelas.

I have 3 biological brothers and 1 biological sister. I have a step brother and a step sister. My step sister passed away many years ago. One of my biological brothers was hidden from us until my late teens early 20s. the short of it is, my mother did not have the means to support a third child being single and the fact that her brother my uncles wife lost a child about the same time my second brother was born, she handed him over to my uncle to raise as their own. Mom wanted to still be in his life so she kept him in the family.

One day I was over at my mother’s sister’s house, my aunt, and my uncle Ernie was very intoxicated and he spilled the beans so to speak about how our cousin was actually our brother. Talk about getting overwhelmed. I was just awoken to the first big lie in my life, but I thought it was the coolest thing I have another brother, It was like an episode of twilight zone.

Well we were told to never tell him, but somehow he found out, and he did not think it was cool at all because he has been living a lie his entire life.

I grew up with many friends but I was not always included in the reindeer games so to speak. They would say one thing and be doing something completely different. I grew up the butt of a lot of deception, but when I found out the truth it was very liberating. Trusting people after growing up with so many lies was a very hard thing to do.

When my step sister died, the people involved in her affairs, lied to me about many things about her death. I will not go into detail on that out of respect for the rest of my family. Just know this, to this day I do not trust those people. I love them and always will, but I test everything they say.

I have almost died several times in my life. Three of those times were, I almost drowned, A very high fall could have killed me and cancer lost its battle with me. 

I was a normal kid to a point; I grew up spending most of my time in a bubble in the hospital because of my asthma and low immune system. The lack of sunlight in my life lowered my immune system and because of that I was always getting sick. When I got sick it went right to my lungs and bam! Right back in the hospital bubble. There was a time I was in the hospital so much that my entire class came to see me there. I did my school work in that damn bubble. I was so sick of hospitals let me tell you.

I went to the local public schools and was in trouble a lot because I did not take everything the teachers said to be true, because I was being lied to so much that I had to do my own research.

I have been on this earth for 9 presidents. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and the current President Trump. After researching all these presidents I found some very interesting things that will be talked about in my future journals. There is some very crazy things that went on in these peoples lives let me tell you.

I quit high school to be in a band and I did that for several years until things transpired and screwed our chances of being signed to a label. That’s another thing I will not get into out of respect to the individual that screwed it all up. I hung up the band thing for a while. I got my GED and CDL and started driving truck about 1994. Met a woman that had 2 kids stayed with her for 12 years until I found out she was cheating on me. Went off the grid for a few years living in a travel trailer next to a friends house. My life at this time was similar to a country song. I lost my wife my house and my job all in 23 days. I got to keep the Dogs so it failed the country song criteria lol. Started creating a full concept band Idea. Started a pool cleaning and repair business. One of my contracts was a funeral director. I told her my sob story about losing my wife house and job, she was a funeral director and said she had a great paying job for me. I became a human remains removal specialist. I eventually started my own business doing that with the help of the funeral director that got me into this type of work.

The business started failing so I got a job as a social media content moderator. Not a very good job at all. It paid pretty well, but having to see the truth of this world really wore me down mentally. I learned more truth about people and government then one man should ever know. The lies death and deception would freak out anyone, but being that I grew up living deception in a small capacity, I was prepared for it. That job was spiritually killing me, so I had to get out of it. I got back into trucking. And that is what I am currently doing.

These words are just a small portion of my life. So you get a basic idea where I am coming from.