Ok, here's the deal. I moved to Australia about 2 years ago to marry my husband (he's Australian), and I have yet to make any "close" friends. Most of the women I know are wives or girlfriends of my husbands friends, and lately we haven't really been in touch with any of them anyways. I do have a few ladies at work that I'm friendly with but none that I would consider close friends - we don't socialise outside of work or anything like that. Here's what I'm getting at - I really want to have a baby shower, I think it would be tons of fun plus would love to get some nice gifts to take some of the financial burden off of having to buy EVERYTHING that we need. But there's no one here thats going to jump up and volunteer to throw me a shower. The way I see it I have 3 choices: 1) Ask someone to throw me a shower 2) Throw a shower for myself or 3) Not have a shower. Which is the least pathetic option, and does anyone have any advice?

Thanks for your opinions!
Stephanie