Yes this is sad for all of the people having an important transaction right now that the kitties is clogging the network including me. Maybe we'll just wait a day or two and this will be resolved by the network hearing that the regular gas limit by now is 40,000. Vitalik buterin has something to say about this situation and its all about positive statements. He also replied several reasons why we should take the issue lightly. You can see for yourself if you haven't seen in his twitter account. We will hope for the best.
this also happened in our place when but in bitcoin. When it spiked to the price, the exchange site our country is using went to upgrade. Because upon the increase many users tried to cashout at the same time. A lot of transaction were lost and still pending until now. The transactions were invalid and it was hard to try and ask for another transaction, but at least the server is ok today. Same case with this, just try to wait for few more days. Because im sure eth blockchain is wider so its gonna take more time.