I had to give it straight to my wife: I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

We moved out to North Aurora from the city to get a little more fresh air, and to be closer to our jobs out here. The idea was more quality time together, less commuting, having a garden, the whole thing. And that worked pretty well for two years.

Then my company moved downtown, while her job ended. With two kids and a new big fat mortgage, this was a shaky proposition. She said in the spring that we could turn the whole back yard into a small vegetable farm, which the kids didn’t like too much because the idea of corn growing around the pool just didn’t seem right. Her argument was we’d be eating off the land and saving money. I asked where we’d keep the cattle since I like my beef.

Just around the time she found a new job (no time to garden, thank god) we were up against a wall on the mortgage and other expenses. It really was a matter of timing – we knew we’d have money in a month, but by letting some payments go then it would kill our credit rating and negate our ability to refi the mortgage.

So I went online and looked for car title loan companies. What I found was North Aurora Title Loans, a car title loans firm that works online only, no scary stores on Western Avenue in Chicago. And they were fast — the money came in a day, in time to keep the bills paid.

We’re both working and putting food – MEAT – on the table again. Whew.

By the way North Aurora is near Mooseheart, Batavia, Montgomery, South Park, and Oswego.