recharge your own AC.
Here is a good write-up on the procedure, including risks of doing it yourself:
http://autos.yahoo.com/maintain/repairqa/fluids_heat_air_conditioning_general/ques023_0.html
"First you need to find the release valve under the hood and release all of the old freeon and pressure out! Then you but a new can of freeon and charge the system in the same spot that you let all...