A Custom Mood Theme in a Year

We've made it to the final week of Part 7! As a reminder, next week is a break week. Or, if you've been keeping up with the bonus moods (and want to go for the full Maximum track), this may be your final week of work! So let's get to it!

This week's Minimum moods are: Relaxed, Silly, Uncomfortable

This week's Maximum moods are: Contemplative, Nostalgic, Pensive

This Part's bonus mood is: Productive

How are you feeling about this week's moods? Confident? Anxious? Do you need some help figuring out what you want to do with them, or are you raring to go with plenty of ideas? No need to be shy; we're here to help! However you're feeling about your mood theme, let's talk about it!

Buckle up, everyone; these are the last moods of Part Four!


This week's Minimum moods are: Recumbent, Complacent, Indifferent

This week's Medium moods are: Content, Aggravated, Annoyed

This week's Maximum moods are: Recumbent, Complacent, Indifferent

This Part's bonus mood is: Artistic


As a reminder, the bonus mood is from Part Eight, which only has five moods in it. By tacking these five moods to the end of Parts Three through Seven, it frees up most of December, which is a very busy time for a lot of us. That said, if you want to keep going with the original stated schedule, you're welcome to do that as well! We're very laid back here at Mood Theme in a Year.

What are your thoughts on this week's moods? And how have you done with this Part overall? Did you struggle more than you thought you would, or are moods coming more easily than you anticipated? And are you looking forward to the next Part? Let's talk about it!

We're in the final week of Part 2! This is the home stretch for both the Medium and Minimum Tracks.

This week's Minimum moods are: Relaxed, Silly, Uncomfortable

This week's Medium and Maximum moods are: Tired, Aggravated, Annoyed


As a side note, "Tired" is the final mood that branches, so anyone who wants to cut out a little early, it's also a good stopping point.

Next week is our second break of the year! Following that, we'll be diving right into derivatives of Angry for the start of Part 3, while the Medium and Minimum Tracks will start at the beginning again. Are you making good progress on your mood theme? Looking forward to a break? Maybe you're almost at the end? Or maybe you're looking forward to joining in for the second round of the Medium Track this year? Let's talk about it!

Aaaaaahhhhhh, we're so close to the end, aaaaaaahhhh!

If you've been following the optional moods, this could be your final week! If you haven't been following the optional moods (but still want to finish things out), there's only five moods left to go! Either way, what a rush.

This week's moods are: Contemplative, Nostalgic, Pensive

This weeks minimal moods are: Relaxed, Silly, Uncomfortable

This part's optional mood is: Productive

Some very thought-filled moods this time! Perhaps appropriate when looking back at a project that has taken most of a year. These moods also have some temporal aspects, I would say; Contemplative for addressing the now, Nostalgic for remembering the past, and Pensive for looking to the future. (Though I'm pretty sure that Pensive could also work for now, it's still a potential angle to explore with the moods!)

What are your thoughts? Are the moods coming to you easily, or will they take a bit more rumination? Do you need help or suggestions with any of them? And are you looking forward to the end of the year, and thus the end of the project? Let's talk about it!

Here we are at the last week of Part 5! There's only two more Parts after this—and only one if you've been including the extra optional moods at the end of each Part.

This week's moods are: Blah, Apathetic, Blank

This weeks minimal moods are: Relaxed, Silly, Uncomfortable

This part's optional mood is: Busy

We're back to some moods that seem pretty darn similar! Figuring out just how to differentiate between the three (three at once, holy moly) definitely seems like a tall order. Still, maybe you've got the perfect idea for some of them already! Worse comes to worst, it'd probably be hilarious to just have a literally blank image for Blank; makes that one pretty easy, too 😜

What do you think? Are these moods too similar, or can you easily tell the difference between them? Are ideas coming easily, or do you think you'll struggle? And are you looking forward to the break next week? Let's talk about it!

Goodness, is it the end of Part 3 already? I can hardly believe it!

This week's moods are: Hyper, Amused, Cheerful

Starting here, I am now going to be adding an additional optional mood at the end of every Part. There are five Parts after this one, and the last one has only five moods in it; that means that, if you want to finish up a couple of weeks early and have almost the entire month of December off from mood theme work, you only have to do one extra mood per Part!

How does this work? All I will be doing is adding an extra optional mood to work on for the final week of Parts 3 through 7. You can still work on the moods in any order you like, but I know December is really busy for a lot of people, and having a little break from an extra challenge might be nice. Plus, it'll give you a longer cushion if you want to do Mood Theme in a Year again next year 😜

That said, making moods in December might be a nice break from the rest of everything for you! So in addition to the optional additional mood every Part, Part 8 will be going forward as planned.

All that is to say:

This Part's optional mood is: Accomplished

What are your thoughts on this week's moods? Are you excited to work on any of them? With the end of the Angry moods, we've moved onto variations on Happy. Are there any you're looking forward to? Do you think you'll have trouble coming up with all the potential Happy variants, or do you expect to zoom right through? And are you looking forward to the break next week? Let's talk about it!