I have one chest in my house that's filled with misc junk, a drawer full of gems, another drawer full of armour, another one with a complete collection of Daedric artifacts and one that holds my overflow of books.
No, I just decided to do every single side quest line first.And every Daedric quest.And decided to grab some more Shouts.And the god quests too.So yeah, Alduin took a while.
When that paralyse thing first procced on an enemy, I thought they were coming back to life after I killed them. Didn't help that they did the killcams as they were paralysed.