Hey guys. We’ve been on hiatus for a little while, but we’re not dead!

We’re also not quite set to go live yet, so don’t celebrate too quickly. There are some nifty things in store, though. I mean, first, check it, new layout. Along with the slightly slicker layout will come a slightly different focus for Living Behind The Curve. You see, it’s changing owners, but only sorta. LBtC was started as Dani’s project, and it followed mostly her idea of what it should be — quite successfully, I might add. It always was a team effort, but times being what they are, it looks like the blog is going to become one of my projects for the foreseeable future.

What does this mean to you, my astonishingly faithful readers? Probably not a whole lot, but that’ll depend entirely on your taste. As you may have gathered over the months, I’m a little less interested in the how-to and a little more interested in the day-to-day of living behind the curve, and the posts will reflect that. You’ll get more ranty analysis from me, for better or for worse*. I will keep cranking out the SRSLY recipes, though, because several people have let me know that I’ll be taking my life in my hands otherwise.

And, honestly? If you’ve spent any time in the Personal Finance realm or the frugality realm or the homesteading realm or any of the other realms we may trip through from time to time, you know as well as I do that there are only so many ways you can write about budgeting, paying down your debt, spending less than you make, and saving money before you want to start jabbing grapefruit spoons into your eyes. (Let’s be honest, all blog niches suffer from this problem.) Once you’ve read The Sacred Gazette and you’ve read the blogs for three months, you’ve pretty much covered your bases. I mean, if you want me to keep beating those old goats to death, let me know and I’ll fulfill your wildest dreams, but for gawd’s sake, aren’t you a little sick of it, too?

So, soon, folks. I promise.

Until then, and in the spirit of the slightly snarkier, bitchier sensibility I’ll probably bring (I did mention that part, right?) I have a story for you. Heather Havrilesky recently wrote about how she “learned to love the recession” in Salon. It’s wonderful that they’re publishing about frugality and all… but… you just go read it, ok? And then come back here and tell me what you think, because I find her whole thing to be insufferably smug and superior. I need other opinions. I don’t want to hate her just because she probably makes twice what I do, and her partner probably makes three times what mine does and she thinks it’s remarkable that she decided that a bag of soup beans were too expensive at $2.69. I don’t want to be that jerk who thinks she’s all hardcore and the rest of the world is full of posers. So set me straight, yeah? Is it my bad attitude, or hers?

* I say this because, unlike every other multi-author blog, you all haven’t seemed to establish any favorites. As far as we can tell, there aren’t any Dani fans or Mer fans, just readers. Which is cool, but also weird. If I’m wrong, let me know in the comments — except for my mom. We all know she like Dani better.