If you mean you're using blockchain wallet, then yeah, the dynamic fee adjustment there hasn't been very good and seems to screw up even more during peak network use. Gotta learn to use manual fees as mentioned above from now on
Yeah, viabtc opens only for 100 txs every hour, around the hour. You can imagine hundreds of others are trying to submit as well... so you've got a wait ahead of you. If you're really desperate check out the Services section for threads that offer free acceleration: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0
Do try and read the sticky posted above... I recommend moving from Blockchain wallet to something like Electrum that supports options like RBF.