Today is already one of the best days of this year.
At around 12:51 AM today, shiny Bulbasaur had shown its mug!
Basically, my brother had been showing me his shiny Swablu which he encountered on a chain of 15. He was in a battle with it at the time. I truly had no further interest in his shiny Swablu at the time, so I looked at the then-blackened screen of my FR (you know, when you transition from pressing "A" on Summary), getting my fingers prepared to do another soft reset.
Then I saw the blue star in the corner.
All was silent for a moment, I could even hear my brother breathing, and he was standing right beside me! Then I looked at the nature:
Calm.
All in alll, this is going to be an amazing day. Stats at level 5 were
HP: 20
Atk: 9
Def: 10
SAtk: 12
SDef: 12
Speed: 9
It's at level 14 now...I'm still in Viridian Forest, though, "EV Training" it in HP and Defense. I won't be able to evolve it right away because I want to have clones of it as a Bulbasaur, and since I can't trade with Emerald until I fix the Network Machine...though I JUST might evolve it into a shiny Ivysaur, but then I may be tempted to evolve it again...
Good luck, everyone!