got tired of waiting and decided to just grind the heavy armor skill
ran out and found a pack of wolves and just stood there for an hour and let them chomp on me.
I leveled up 3 dam levels to get heavy armor skill up high enough. Also leveled up restoration skill 3 times because i was healing nonstop.
weightless heavy armor!! w00t
now i'm 1 point away from getting smithing up to improve arcane stuff.
after that an enchanting session from hell
i think my eyes are starting to bleed.