Changing blog permalink address w/ static front page

Hi, I have a non-standard blog set up that I’ve been working on; the front page of my site is static, the actual blog is in two seperate locations elsewhere on the site. Each location pulls a specific query from two different top level categories.

The problem is that my permalinks won’t let me take ‘blog/’ out of the structure now. I would like the blog entries to appear as though they are in the same directory structure as the page that they’re listed on, but both areas link to domain.tld/blog/category/post

Is there a way to change blog/ ?