Just when you thought you knew your favorite bloggers, along comes the Bubble Gum Interviews. We ask the really tough questions about things like food preferences, high school stories and favorite hair products. Shailesh Ghimire, the Arizona Mortgage Gurualways has my back, so I thought I’d pay him back with embarrassing questions, so let’s get started!

You meet Justin Timberlake- what do you say to him?

I honestly don’t know anything about him other than the fact that he was a member of N’Sync. I’ve never cared for that kind of music. The canned, techno beats with pretty boy singers. Ever since The Simpsons aired that one episode where Bart gets included in the boy band (New Kids on the Blecch), my view towards these cookie cutter boy bands isn’t very positive. I tune them out.

So, to answer your question, if I did ever get a chance to talk to Justin I’d ask him if I could do his next mortgage! Keep it all business.

What does your lawn look like?

Honestly, awful. I’ve been cited by the HOA a few times. I’m not proud of it, but I have a hard time with my lawn. It’s a small patch of grass surrounded by a rock garden of sorts. I’ve considered getting rid of the grass. See, I have an excuse; there is a dog in my neighborhood that has been using my lawn to do his/her business. I’m not a dog fan. So, it’s like a slap in the face. I’ve asked all the neighbors and no one takes responsibility. The HOA hasn’t helped either. So, when I see dog poop on my lawn, I’m in no mood to get my lawn in order.

I’ve considered posting a sign “pick up your dog’s poop from my lawn” – but my wife vetoed that one. I’ve considered sending a letter out to all the neighbors, but I’ve already talked to most of them and a few of my close ones have the same problem. So, you see, this is a touchy issue for me…. I’ve even considered running for HOA president just to address this issue. We’ll see.

What is your favorite shoe brand?

I’ve always liked Adidas sports shoes. Plus it stands for “all day I dream about Shailesh” – and I always thought the ladies found that cool back in school. I always liked the soccer cleats they made. I have many in the past but the one I have, I’ve had for almost 9 years now, can you beleive it. Either their quality is really good, or I’m just a pathetic soccer player. I think its that I’m a poor player, nothing happens to it all you’re doing is
running up and down the field.

What did you do for your 18th birthday?

Hmmm 18th. Well, I was just coming out of boarding school. Yes. I want to a British boarding school back in Kathmandu, Nepal. So, just getting off campus and heading for a nearby watering hole was a victory back in the day.

So… it was just another birthday. Nothing special happened. I got in a lot of trouble the last few years of high school, so I had to keep things under control if I wanted to make it in life!

Have you ever stolen office supplies? Which ones and can you send me some cool pens?

See, I have a “home office”, so I don’t steal office supplies. I just “bring” some home for “office” use – mostly paper, pens, staples, envelopes. I occasionally bring stacks of paper home, man those credit reports can get long and I’m not paying for the paper all the time. I can send you a CTX pen if you’d like. I’d have to go and dig. We just moved offices so I don’t even know where the office supplies are kept anymore.

What is something special that you and your wife do together even when times are busy?

We like to go hiking. We’ve tried to make time for it even when we’re super busy, but things it doesn’t always happen. My wife has been complaining that we’re not doing enough fun stuff together, and I agree that I’ve been a bit slack in that department. So, we went to see a musical last weekend. She loves musicals, and she loved this one. One of the agents we work with was in it and I didn’t know such a wonderful theater existed right here in Gilbert, Arizona. I never was much into musicals, but because of her we’ve seen quite a few. The best one was “Joseph and the Techno Color Dream coat”. It was fantastic.

So, really, there isn’t one thing we do even when things are busy. That is probably why we end up doing something really nice every so often - to make up for the lack of “together” ness on a more regular basis. Now, if she was also blogged, got a Facebook account, and was on Twitter, maybe we’d be doing more fun stuff!!!!

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So, there you have it. Shailesh is my new enemy due to his hatred of Timberlake, has an awful lawn that he blames on a dog (I’ve heard that excuse for other things…), sucks at soccer, and was converted by the musical Joseph & the Rainbow Coat! Now that you really know Shailesh, what do you think?