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You've taken the plunge and bought some pastels, but if you decide you want to learn to work in oils (without spending a lot of money) at some point in the future, here are a few suggestions:
Buy four tubes of paint: white, black, yellow ochre and Venetian red. You can paint magnificent portraits and most interior backgrounds with just those colors. Rubens did.
Put your paint in the freezer after every session, as Linda suggested. I can store the stuff for weeks that way before I ever have to scrape any of it off and put out fresh paint. (The exception is certain fast drying colors like Burnt Umber. Some of those will dry out in a couple of days somewhat even if they're in the freezer).
Really take advantage of your library and its online search catalog, as you've already started to do. I own one of Daniel Greene's videos and while it's good, I'd spend a couple of years intensively studying everything I could get for free before I'd spend the money buying a video. Check out a big fat art coffee table book from the library and spend a year (and lots of renewals) copying old master reproductions, or print a few from the web from some good museum art sites. You'll learn a ton that way, for free.
Or, as Mike suggested, become proficient in black and white before even moving to color. Traditional atelier art students are required to work only in pencil, charcoal and maybe move on to black and white paint for literally years before they are allowed to even touch color.
There is SO much to be learned without spending money on supplies.
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