lip balm

It's amazing how evasive lip balm can be. I have no idea how many tubes, pucks, and canisters of lip balm I've purchased in my life, but I'm pretty sure I've never made it to the bottom of one of them. I must have looked around the house for a half hour searching for one before I finally gave up. Where do they go? I thought about the alternatives I could apply before leaving the house today, as my lips were really chapped. I've used olive oil before, but it doesn't help for very long. I thought about buttering my lips, and I'm fairly confident it would have been an effective technique, but I just couldn't do it. So, poor me, off to brave the wind and new cold weather on my way to work, where I KNOW there is lip balm in my desk.