I've been soft resetting for the past thirty minutes.

After twenty-one soft resets…

Shiny Giratina just appeared.

Excuse me while I go change my pants.

Because holy cow has it been snowing for a while right now. :/

…Really questionable.

Y'know the shiny Squirtle I got in Wonder Trade? Apparently, its Egg Moves are Aura Sphere and Water Spout, which is pretty uninteresting. The really questionable part is this: why would somebody WT a shiny Squirtle with perfect IVs in all stats, and was completely EV trained?

I don't mind the gift at all, but I'm really skeptical…

Apparently, somebody gave me a shiny Modest Squirtle with Aura Sphere on Wonder Trade.

…Oh, and I got a Honedge, Chlorophyll Bulbasaur, and Modest Hustle Nidoran female, which are pretty cool. And a dozen Zigzagoons.

But that Squirtle… o.o

I wanted to take a break from breeding 'Mons in Omega Ruby, so I decided to catch Reshiram.

After 953 soft resets, I not only found my dear shiny Reshiram, but I caught it in a single Quick Ball! It even has the Rash nature I wanted to Synchronize with 31 Speed IVs to boot!

My screams and squeals were most definitely unmanly.

I can definitely tell that one of my dogs is getting old. I mean, both of them are getting old, but I can definitely see it take its toll on her more.

She still seems energetic and stuff, but she's slowed down quite a bit. She's even starting to get a cataract in one of her eyes.

Feels, man.

Why do they get to be so lucky?

I mean, I just found this out because I got a Japanese Contrary Snivy from WonderTrade. Oh, and a female Mudkip and a Speed Boost Torchic.

I've been doing stuff in the Battle Maison for a while now just so that I can get the Choice items and the Power training items. I realized that the first Battle Chatelaine battles aren't nearly as difficult as I expected them to be, so my team going in was apparently a bit over-prepared for the battles…

Anyway, going into the single ones, I have fought two people whose before battle quotes started off with "huehuehue". Is this a thing now?

I rematched the Elite Four and actually had a somewhat easy time fighting them.

Because of that, I was able to rematch Deoxys, as I intentionally killed it during the Delta Episode (I was soft resetting for a perfect or near-perfect Rayquaza).

I used a Ralts to get the right nature, then, after it was fainted, I sent out my Electrode to paralyze it. I then Volt Switched out and used Latios's Psychic to bring it down to 20 HP (all thanks to Cosmic Power).

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It's half an hour 'till midnight for me, but I will likely be passed out then.

You all have a fantastic New Year, and may your 2015 be filled with fun, fortune, and fashionability!

Why the last one?

Let's all rise to new heights, starting tomorrow.