Dang it!!

My one (so far) gripe with Blogger is that often times I will write up and work on a blog a few days before I actually post it. Apparently there is a time stamp on it somewhere that I cannot find, and then when I actually do post it, it gets posted on the day I started it. This has happened twice, and it's annoying. I want to post them on a particular day, such as this one and this one were intended to, but they posted on the original dates that they were drafted, making me look look like I don't know my dates! Oh, I just remembered another gripe: when I'm putting in my labels, after I enter the last one, I press enter (habit, maybe), and it automatically publish's the post. This too pisses me off. I wish it would not automatically publish it, I would rather it just save it. I've accidentally published things.

Does any more experienced blogger have any ways to fix this, or do I just have to be more careful about the early posting, and the invisible time stamp?