Life, new and improved

I can honestly tell you I never thought that much about lip balm.  Other than the fact that I needed it in my possession at all times.  Or if it wasn't that I needed to stop and buy some.  The reality was that over the years it had become really the one true item that I had to have with me or I wouldn't make it very long.  Sure there were days I probably didn't use it much, but even just the thought of it not being available made my lips start to feel chapped.  The thing is, when you get to that level of need in any product you become a slave to it. I wanted to be free but honestly couldn't find much information to help me.  I had tried half heartedly many times before to stop using the stuff, but in the end I would reach a point of uncomfortableness or pain that just didn't seem worth giving up the luscious amazing feeling of well balmed lips.  I did find a handful of blogs and posts here and there about how others have quit and I took what I could...

I started this road a few years back, and now I find myself in the crazy throws of constant stress and worry about if I'm making the right choice... Here's the thing, it doesn't really matter.  I'm a resourceful and talented "young" man (not in the coding world) who will figure it out one way or another.  Maybe that means I don't succeed at a code school boot camp.  I would really like to think that I certainly can.  But here's what's important, we try, we grow.  Even in the thick of it I find my mind is expanding.  My wiring is changing and I'm becoming someone who understands a little bit about a part of the world that I had NO idea about before.   My situation is that my financial life and my personal life have not had too terribly many conflicts over the years.  I have never made a ton of money, nor have I ever needed a ton of money.  Now sure it would be nice now and then to have been able to have more "means" to do some thin...