Well I recently started playing skyrim again. I thought I would give some mods a try. 34 mods later I got blizzards that are thicker, where you can't see more than 5 ft ahead with two dragons dropping out of the sky at the same time. I got a world that looks like a forest now, I got arrows that fly straight. I got arrows I can craft. I got new weapon sets. I even got a mod that turns dragon shouts into perks. I've got one that makes blood spatter or something. It's nice to pick this game up again. I left it for awhile but its still fun to play. Oh and now i have markers for stones of barenziah. So now I can find them all. Cool! I'll keep looking for more mods. I haven't blown the game up so far. But I'm committed to trying...

Mods add a bit of new life to the game, but not enough for me to personally spend too much more time in the world of Skyrim. So now that I've clocked ~180 hrs into the game, I feel that there's really not much more I can do with it.

The worst part is that now that I can't get my daily fix of the Elder Scrolls, I'm having TES withdrawal symptoms. Urk.

You burned out after only 180 hours? I've got 350 in, and my main char hasn't even finished exploring everywhere yet, and i doubt I've completed even half of all the quests there are. Haven't even picked a side yet, in the war. You must have missed an awful lot of stuff along the way.