As usual, nothing's happened in Sapphire lately, so in Emerald...
I spent the last few days doing "remedial courses" for all 26 or so Pokemon I caught just after beating Norman. Meaning I was training them all to level 30-32. A couple of days ago, I just finished all that. The last six Pokemon that got to their appropriate levels were Girafarig, Corphish (who evolved), Heracross (this was a Heracross I bred, so it was below level 30), Duskull, Shuppet, and Absol. When only Shuppet and Absol were left, I had fun by hosting a "race" to see who would finish their "remedial training" last. Hmm... there was Shuppet, who was level 30 and has been trained for quite a few days before that last day, and needed to get to level 32. Then there was Absol, who was level 25 and needed to get to level 31, and just started its training that day. (And as an inside joke, they happened to be nicknamed Severus and Sirius, respectively...) But it was Severus who finished before his Absol competition, barely. Well, there you go Sirius. You start last, you finish last. Lesson learned: don't procrastinate! Start training NOW!
So now all 60 or so of my Pokemon need to get to levels 35-38 before I can face Winona... (depending on whether they need to learn any attacks or evolve) But wait, what about my Staryu? I want to evolve it before it gets to level 33, but I can't find a Water Stone or even a Blue Shard anywhere! Then I found out that I can't get either until I'm able to use Dive, which won't happen until Badge 7. Arrgh... it looks like I'll have to either wait until Badge 7 to train Staryu any further, or trade in a Water Stone/Blue Shard from Sapphire... Meh, it's less frustrating to do the latter, but then again, I wasn't able to evolve my traded-in Feebas until I was able to reach Lilycove City...
Leaf Green
Not much has actually happened in Leaf Green since beating the Elite Four, but I did go on a huge nicknaming spree for some of my Pokemon. Some of the Pokemon I renamed were:
Onix (Iwaku)
Hypno (Mesmeria)
Marowak (Gara)
Zapdos (Raimundo)
Dugtrio (Mounds)
Butterfree (Buttercup)
Clefable (Treacle)
Dodrio (Rhea) --A kind of emu-ish bird
Wigglytuff (Utami) --Uta = song
Parasect (Mushi) --Japanese for bug
Nidoqueen (MRS. NIDO) --because my in-game-trade Nidoking is MR. NIDO
Poliwhirl (Polly)
Ninetales (Vixen)
Crobat (Batman)
Persian (Maneki)
Fearow (Falco)
Victreebel (Amaguchi) --literally "sweet mouth"
Magneton (Magneto) --just one letter from Magneton, but hey, it's an X-Man...
Beedrill (Hornet)