I'm officially tech-challenged

The kids got a laptop for Christmas from their father, with the understanding that I would get wireless internet so they could fully use it. Right...It's now April and I still haven't gotten the laptop internet ready. Got the wireless router...not working. Then my mom tells me "You need the adapter to plug into the laptop." Seeing the utterly confused look on my face, she leads me to her computer and lets me know "it's the little silvery thing plugged into the back there".
Finally I understand.
Months go by and I finally remember to get the adapter thingy. Uh-Oh..I need the admin password to do this? My ex set it up at his work, and they gave me a user thingy with a random password. This was written on the back of a piece of paper that has since disappeared into the bottomless void of all things lost in my house. So I bring the thing to work, and my brilliant bossman somehow hacks into something and wipes out my password. Pretty sure I don't wanna know how.

Last night, among my chaos, I'm trying to hook this thing up. No luck. How was I to know that the cd to install was supposed to go in my Desktop, not the laptop. Ugh. The call to mom to goes out. She's done this before, no problem. Big problem. She can't figure it out either.
"Did you know it had a router installed?"
"uh..a what? No."
"Do you know where your cable modem is?"
"Your kidding, right" This woman has raised me and taken care of all things techy for me and has the audacity to ask me this?

Two hours later, still no hook up, my mom has no idea what the problem is, and I now have no internet access on my desktop either. Marvelous.

So tomorrow the laptop will come in to work with me again, with all peices I've managed to collect, and my brilliant boss will again save the day.

I love my job...