OH now I find out
I started my game last Monday afternoon and saw the "extension" on the timer and refreshed the page multiple times to make sure it wasn't itch being weird or buggy. I am technically within the 7 days and was going to submit and make my page when I woke up. So I'm guessing I goofed because I was going by the timer? That sucks because I put in almost 30 hours over the weekend alone. I didn't know I had to come to the forums to find out the truth about the timer.