Mavericks update stuck in waiting

I can't seem to download the Mavericks update on my macbook pro running snow leopard 10.6.8. It just stays on waiting....
Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your response Eric. Nothing ever showed up in purchases to indicate that I was downloading Mavericks. It did show that it was downloading though, and got to about 1.03 gb then said stopped and said there was an error.
Here is what I have done to try to download Mavericks so far:
About a month ago I got my computer ready the best I knew how to by upgrading what I could and backing up my computer. When I tried to download Mavericks, however, it stopped ay 1.01 gb. I deleted the download from purchases, deleted anything related to it in my library, restarted my computer, and tried and tried again. It continued to stop at 1.01 gb.
I posted to the community with my dilemma and got a response from someone who said it might be my router not allowing the download. So yesterday I tried the download again at a friend's house. Twice. It seemed to be working, but then stopped again, this time at 1.03 gb. I really don't know what to do.
I have never heard of Little Snitch, so I don't think I'm running it..
This is very frustrating, and I'm not very computer savvy, so any other suggestions would be very much appreciated!

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