I'm in the same boat. I know jack and shit about anything related to home projects. I'll build you a computer in an hour, but ask me to install a ceiling fan and I'll want to shoot myself in the face. Everything I try to do around the house ends up taking 4x longer than I had planned and usually ends in buckets of sweat(often blood also) and endless cursing.
Just to give an example of how things usually go down in our house. Last weekend was warm here, so me and the wife got out in the front yard to rake up our gumballs(sweet gum tree...scourge of the earth), get the yard raked up and into yard waste bags in about an hour. Go inside and close the garage door, and as I'm walking away into the house I hear this HORRIBLE crunching and grinding noise. Apparently the wife put her rake too close to the garage door and it fell over and the rake handle was in the garage door tracks, and the garage door got totally stuck and fucked up about halfway down.
So now the garage door will only close about half way, I start trying to adjust it with the little screwholes you can turn to adjust how far up or down it goes, and in the middle of turning one of them the screw thingamajigger actually falls off inside of the garage door opener casing. So I end up having to completely disassemble the garage door casing to get to the inside...blahblahblahblah
Ends up taking like 3 hours to fix the goddamn garage door.
tl;dr a 1-hour yard project ends up being a 4-hour home repair and wasting my entire afternoon.
goddamn houses